mySAP Toolbag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing

Chapter 14. Iterations in Testing and Tuning

If you have ever wondered how many iterations it takes to finish performance tuning a complex enterprise solution like R/3 Enterprise or those found in the mySAP Business Suite, you've come to the right place. The answer is simple—many—and you'll likely never find yourself putting the final performance-tuning touches on your system. If you're fortunate and stay heads-down, you might get close, but by the time you peer back up, everything will look different again, much like the way the stars can't help but move across the sky at night.

So instead of trying to achieve performance-tuning perfection, I subscribe to an approach that says you must draw a line in the sand that falls short of achieving 100%. ...