Levels of Value from Performance Testing

Performance Testing provides many levels of value.

Level

Value

5

Predict the Profitable
(Monetary Benefit for Assets)
Product: Profit/Cost related to Assets

4

Anticipate the Awesome
(Capacity Planning)
Product: Future Awareness

3

Prove the Powerful
(Able to anticipate expected Response Times and Resource Consumption)
Product: Clear Expectations of Performance

2

Improve the Imperfect
(Discover any Performance Related Issues)
Product: Debugged code and environments

1

Weed out the Wimpy
(Avoid System's which will not Perform)
Product: Disaster Avoidance