Unter http://www.codeplex.com/PerfTestingGuide hat das Patterns and Practices Team die Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications veröffentlicht, welche aus folgenden Kapiteln besteht:

• Introduction

Part 1, Introduction to Performance Testing

• Chapter 1 – Fundamentals of Web Application Performance Testing
• Chapter 2 – Types of Performance Testing
• Chapter 3 – Risks Addressed Through Performance Testing

Part II, Exemplar Performance Testing Approaches

• Chapter 4 – Web Application Performance Testing Core Activities
• Chapter 5 – Coordinating Performance Testing with an Iteration-Based Process
• Chapter 6 – Managing an Agile Performance Test Cycle
• Chapter 7 – Managing the Performance Test Cycle in a Regulated (CMMI) Environment

Part III, Identify the Test Environment

• Chapter 8 – Evaluating Systems to Increase Performance-Testing Effectiveness

Part IV, Identify Performance Acceptance Criteria

• Chapter 9 – Determining Performance Testing Objectives
• Chapter 10 – Quantifying End-User Response Time Goals
• Chapter 11 – Consolidating Various Types of Performance Acceptance Criteria

Part V, Plan and Design Tests

• Chapter 12 – Modeling Application Usage
• Chapter 13 – Determining Individual User Data and Variances

Part VI, Execute Tests

• Chapter 14 – Test Execution

Part VII, Analyze Results and Report

• Chapter 15 – Key Mathematic Principles for Performance Testers
• Chapter 16 – Performance Test Reporting Fundamentals

Part VIII, Performance-Testing Techniques

• Chapter 17 – Load-Testing Web Applications
• Chapter 18 – Stress-Testing Web Applications

Reference

• Glossary