Extracting the Last Drop of Value out of Testing
True, the common goals of stress testing seem to reflect the immediate needs of the production user community—things like average response times, number of supported users, speed with which batch processing is completed, and so on. However, I applaud those companies that take advantage of stress testing their pre-production environment to verify:
That their backup and restore processes works as advertised
That their disaster recovery plans are not a disaster waiting to happen!
Other value can be gained as well. For example, testing the ability of your newly selected Systems Management applications or utilities (and other monitoring tools and processes) to effectively meet the needs of the SAP TSO ...
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