The priority that performance testing gets among other development activities is always less; it is an “afterthought”, not a critical, ongoing part of the development process. Typically, it is done in higher environments like ST, QA. Some attention is given to performance in the prior SDLC cycles like design by making proper selection of frameworks. But during development its often limited to following the right coding standards. With this approach, the performance issues accumulate over time and then these bottlenecks become project killers.
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