This book gives practical step approach to mission-critical testing-by-step applications for scalability and performance before they are used - an important topic which other books devote a chapter, if that. Businesses today live and die by the network applications and web services explained. The Art of Application Performance Testing complete life cycle of the testing process, and demonstrate best practices to help you plan, for approval, coordinate and conduct performance tests on your application . With this book you will learn to: Set realistic goals of performance testing application performance Implement effective strategies Interpret test results of performance testing technologies Overcoming the different applications and architecture Use the automated performance testing tool Test local application of traditional, web-based applications, and web services (SOA) Recognize and solve problems which is often overlooked in the performance test Written by a consultant with 30 years experience in IT industry and more than 12 years of experience with performance testing, this easy-to-read book is illustrated with real world examples and is packed with practical advice as a whole. The Art Application Performance Testing explains the trap inadequate testing strategies and offer you approach, strong structured to ensure that your applications perform well and scale effectively when needed. "Ian has maintained its vendor-agnostic methodology beautiful in this material.