Comments on: Performance Testing Notepad http://www.myloadtest.com/performance-testing-notepad/ Performance Testing with a LoadRunner focus Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:40:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jay Harris http://www.myloadtest.com/performance-testing-notepad/#comment-1032 Jay Harris Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:06:09 +0000 http://www.myloadtest.com/?p=61#comment-1032 I totally agree. In my experiences, this is all-too-often the case. And I don't think that it is necessarily tool-based testing, but also getting hung up on load testing, even if it is a low-tech, 20-people-in-a-room test. Performance testing and load testing are two very different things. Performance testing when a system is not under load is a critical test to conduct. I should point out one thing to keep in mind. (Not saying you missed the mark. It wasn't applicable to your test, so it just wasn't covered.) It is possible for your system to improve performance as load increases, as cache-hit-ratios improve and modules stay loaded into memory. Again, performance testing under zero load is critical, as we would not want to impact that one off-hour user with 0% cache hit. I totally agree. In my experiences, this is all-too-often the case. And I don’t think that it is necessarily tool-based testing, but also getting hung up on load testing, even if it is a low-tech, 20-people-in-a-room test. Performance testing and load testing are two very different things. Performance testing when a system is not under load is a critical test to conduct.

I should point out one thing to keep in mind. (Not saying you missed the mark. It wasn’t applicable to your test, so it just wasn’t covered.) It is possible for your system to improve performance as load increases, as cache-hit-ratios improve and modules stay loaded into memory. Again, performance testing under zero load is critical, as we would not want to impact that one off-hour user with 0% cache hit.

]]> By: Victor Kouznetsov http://www.myloadtest.com/performance-testing-notepad/#comment-560 Victor Kouznetsov Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:29:07 +0000 http://www.myloadtest.com/?p=61#comment-560 So true ... . So true … .

]]> By: Stuart Moncrieff http://www.myloadtest.com/performance-testing-notepad/#comment-546 Stuart Moncrieff Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:33:54 +0000 http://www.myloadtest.com/?p=61#comment-546 I once worked with a guy from IBM who maintained that “Notepad is the best piece of software that Microsoft has ever written”. When I pointed out all the features that were missing when compared to almost any other text editor, he stuck to his original opinion. “Notepad doesn’t pretend to be all things to all people. Microsoft implemented a small number of features and they just work“. I guess that is a valid enough point although, being a longtime Linux user, I think that he just liked the idea of Microsoft’s best software being a tiny, feature-poor tool that has been implemented better by everyone else that has ever tried. I once worked with a guy from IBM who maintained that “Notepad is the best piece of software that Microsoft has ever written”.

When I pointed out all the features that were missing when compared to almost any other text editor, he stuck to his original opinion.

“Notepad doesn’t pretend to be all things to all people. Microsoft implemented a small number of features and they just work“.

I guess that is a valid enough point although, being a longtime Linux user, I think that he just liked the idea of Microsoft’s best software being a tiny, feature-poor tool that has been implemented better by everyone else that has ever tried.

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