mySAP Toolbag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing

8.3. Creating Repeatable Testing Methods

T3s live and die based on the processes they use in their testing endeavors. A team unconcerned with creating repeatable processes that quantify or essentially “prove” the impact of a proposed change or upgrade will not survive long term, as their value will immediately (and rightly) be questioned at the onset of performance problems. So once your organizational decisions have been made, it's important to begin putting together the step-by-step processes you will eventually use when testing, borne from your project-specific test plan. That is, a detailed, well-crafted, and customized test plan should naturally lend itself to evolving into a project-specific execution checklist, which basically reflects ...