In this post we are going to look at the importance of volume testing. We are going to consider how this type of non-functional test can have a significant impact on your size and scale your production environment based on evidence this test provides.

In this blog post we are going to look at how we can use our performance tests to act as Sanity Test. We have touched upon the subject in one of our blog posts on the hidden benefits or performance testing. This post will however look to provide more detail on the subject and provide guidance on how you can accomplish this. We are not suggesting that you write a set of JMeter tests to act as sanity tests for our application under test as that would not be that beneficial.

In this post we are going to look at performance test coverage. What functionality to performance test can range from very little to most of the application under test and both are valid under the right circumstances.