Appendix B. Pre-Test Checklists

This appendix contains a set of checklists to use prior to beginning your tests. These checklists include best practices for the web application and test environment.

  1. Web Application checklist

  2. Component checklist

  3. Test Team checklist

  4. Test Environment checklist

  5. Test Simulation and Tooling checklist

Web Application Checklist

The actual web application design and implementation play the most critical performance role for a high-performance web site. You cannot overcome a poor application with hardware tuning. Here is a checklist containing the critical do's and don'ts for the web application. Please refer to Chapters 2 and 3 for more information on each of these elements.

Servlets

  • □ Short code paths.

  • □ Each servlet returns a ...

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