posted 03-06-2003 08:15 AM         

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Originally posted by igglue:
Before you start looking at the tool, first make sure you identify how your product works, and what you are really trying to achieve.

Iggy

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Then identify quantifiable results you expect to achieve from the test, and develop your requirements, test cases, workload distributions, data requirements, etc...

THEN, and only then, should you start thinking about a tool. When clients interview me about Performance Testing they always ask me what tool I use - I tell them 2 things.

1) It doesn't matter, the tool is transparent to what I do.
2) If the tool doesn't natively do what we need it to, I either "teach" the tool to do it, or we get a tool that will.

I, for one, refuse to be limited by my tools.