Removing the Roadblock to Continuous Performance Testing

4 years ago thenewstack.io

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You can’t afford to have a new feature, update, or bug fix bring you two steps forward and three steps back. The new functionality must work flawlessly — and it can’t disrupt the pre-existing functionality that users have come to rely on.

At the root of the problem is the fact that functional tests and performance tests are fundamentally different. Even if you want to test the same core set of use cases that your smoke tests cover, you typically need to create, and maintain, a totally different set of tests for performance testing.

This means that you don’t need to maintain two separate sets of tests for performance testing and functional testing.

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