Links
The following are links to external sources of information about web performance.
OptimizationWeek.com
Here at Web Performance, Inc. we subscribe to Optimization Week to keep up with the latest web performance news.
Lightening The Load-Testing Load
“Load testing – making sure an application will perform well under expected usage – is a tricky business. It requires intimate knowledge of everything, from how an application works and how users are likely to interact with it, to how the production environment is set up, according to analysts, development managers and tool makers.”
Integrating Load Testing with Software Development (Himanshu Bhatt)
“Successful projects require mitigating risks early on. Developing an Internet-enabled system exposes project teams to more uncertainties than ever before. With global access to systems, nonfunctional requirements such as security, performance, scalability, and availability suddenly become strategic.”
WebSiteOptimization.com
While the book is excellent, the web site is one of the only sources of raw information for current statistics on end user bandwidth.
WebPerformance.Org
“This domain focuses as a central point for the free sharing of information of Web Performance information with the Internet community as a whole.”
Microsoft Enterprise Services White Paper E-Commerce Technical Readiness
“This paper discusses the essential testing stages that are conducted during the implementation of an e-commerce solution and its maintenance. It also covers specific types of e-commerce testing and defines their stages.”
Web Server Performance by Prof. Peter Ladkin
“One of the most vexing questions facing researchers interested in the World Wide Web is why users often experience long delays in document retrieval. The Internet's size, complexity, and continued growth make this a difficult question to answer. We describe the Wide Area Web Measurement project (WAWM) which uses an infrastructure distributed across the Internet to study Web performance. The infrastructure enables simultaneous measurements of Web client performance, network performance and Web server performance. The infrastructure uses a Web traffic generator to create representative workloads on servers, and both active and passive tools to measure performance characteristics. Initial results based on a prototype installation of the infrastructure are presented in this paper.”
Software/QA Test Resource Center
- Software QA and Testing Resources – Software QA and Testing Tools
- Web Site Test Tools and Site Management Tools
- Job Boards & Current News – Software QA and Testing Bookstore
Stick Minds Tools Guide
A "testing portal" from the editors of Better Software Magazine.
QA Forums
The most popular Software Testing and Quality Assurance discussions site. With over 50 forums that cover almost every area in software testing, quality assurance and quality engineering.
Sun Product Catalog
The definitive source for software that runs on the Solaris platform.
