I can see where this approach is more valuable than “performance test this”, but wouldn’t it be yet more useful to start by identifying the value you hope to gain by performance testing rather than biasing your experiments based on your initial presumption of what the relevant findings will be?

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Scott Barber
President & Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Executive Director, Association for Software Testing
Co-Author, Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications

“If you can see it in your mind…
you will find it in your life.”