June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
7h 50m
English
The tuning of a system involves testing in order to find bottlenecks in the system and eliminate them by tuning the system and related components.
Before performance tuning actually starts, it must be determined what test-cases, or rather indicators, to focus on. This set of indicators might stay static, but after some work (iterations), it is also common that some that are deemed not to be as fruitful as expected are simply removed. Similarly, some new ones might be added over time, both to follow the evolution of the system as well as to widen or deepen our understanding of it. All this is done to improve its efficiency.
It is important that the bulk of test cases are kept between ...