Last month’s column (February 2015) addressed the potential situation where the design engineers specify a change to a system which has already passed its commissioning functional performance test.

In the past, and probably in this column years ago, I was a passionate proponent of making functional performance test execution a prerequisite for substantial completion. This seemed to be an obvious ...

Implementing the right kind of performance testing is as much an art as it is a science. Why? Today’s applications are different. They are built with containers and call on microservices. They’re ...