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Implement an effective performance-testing strategy

Sebastopol, CA--Businesses in today's world live and die by the
performance of mission-critical software applications. "Sadly, many
applications are deployed without being adequately tested for scalability
and performance," reports Ian Molyneaux, author of "The Art of Application
Performance Testing" (O'Reilly, US $43.99).  "Effective performance
testing identifies performance bottlenecks in a timely fashion and tells
you where they are located in the application landscape."

Molyneaux's book addresses an urgent need in the marketplace for reference
material on this subject.  "However, this is not a book on how to tune
technology X or optimize technology Y," says Molyneaux. "I've
intentionally stayed well away from specific technologies except where
they actually affect how you go about performance testing. My intention is
to provide a commonsense guide that focuses on planning, execution, and
interpretation of results and is based on a decade of experience in
performance testing projects."

"The Art of Application Performance Testing" explains the complete life
cycle of the testing process, and demonstrates best practices to help you
plan, gain approval for, coordinate, and conduct performance tests on your
applications. With this book, you'll learn to:

- Set realistic performance testing goals
- Implement an effective application performance testing strategy
- Interpret performance test results
- Cope with different application technologies and architectures
- Use automated performance testing tools
- Test traditional local applications, web-based applications, and web
services (SOAs)
- Recognize and resolves issues that are often overlooked in
performance tests

Written by a consultant with 30 years of experience in the IT industry and
over 12 years experience with performance testing, this easy-to-read book
is illustrated with real-world examples and packed with practical advice.
"The Art of Application Performance Testing" thoroughly explains the
pitfalls of an inadequate testing strategy and offers you a robust,
structured approach for ensuring that your applications perform well and
scale effectively when the need arises.

"Ian has maintained a vendor-agnostic methodology beautifully in this
material. The metrics and graphs, along with background information
provided in his case studies, eloquently convey to the reader,
'Methodology above all, tools at your discretion...' Ian's expertise
shines through throughout the entire reading experience." 
-- Matt St. Onge, Enterprise Solution Architect, HCL Technologies America
/ Teradyne

Ian Molyneaux originally hails from Auckland, New Zealand, and ended up in
IT purely by chance after applying for an interesting looking job
advertised as "junior computer operator" in the mid '70s. The rest is
history, 30 years later he's held many roles in IT, although he's shied
away from anything management related as he's a techie at heart.

For more information about the book, including table of contents, index,
author bio, and samples, see:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520663/

The Art of Application Performance Testing
Ian Molyneaux
ISBN: 978-0-596-52066-3, 144 pages, US $34.99
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