HA testing | Define scope and requirements of new design

Designing a test plan

For any testing, we should create a test plan. Creating a test plan for performance testing is extremely critical. This is due to the fact that in a performance test there are many knobs that may be tweaked or that may need to be tweaked. These knobs are all the variables that go into creating a test scenario. This may include your environment settings, database or application server confirmation, scenario flow, and so on.

All these knobs must be clearly documented and communicated to the appropriate stakeholders of your business, including the other testers and administrators, architects, business analysts, business owners, and so on. If these knobs are not set to correct values then it will very likely invalidate your test case execution.

In this chapter, we deal with many of the key knobs, and how to track them as well as how they may be communicated to your test plan reviewers and stakeholders.

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