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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Posts Tagged ‘Database’
Feed Your Database
September 10th, 2009 by Aparna Chaudhary(http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/09/10/feed-your-database/)
Testing the database layer
July 1st, 2009 by Jelmer Kuperus(http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/07/01/testing-the-database-layer/)
The database is an integral part of many applications and writing queries is often hard. For that reason I have always written integration tests for the data access objects or DAO’s that I use to access the database. The way I write my DAO tests has changed a lot over the years and in this post I’d like to document the ways in which it has changed and why.