Friday, July 15, 2011

Fundamental laws of Performance Testing


Sometime back , i could realize how I was struggling to isolate simple Performance bottlenecks.
Though i managed to identify performance bottlenecks,I know that i was missing something..but really not sure what was it. Pea (Performance Engineering Associates) helped me to identify those missing pieces. Thanks to Pea.
Yes..Its the basics about Queuing Theory.
PEA was formed by professionals who have had the opportunity to lead assignments that brought about several radical changes by bridging the gap between theory and practice in PE.

Fundamental Laws
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1. Utilization law
2. Little's law
3. Response Time law
4. Forced Flow law
5. Service Demand law

Check out the free online book on Queuing Theory available in pea's web site.
http://www.pea-online.com/resources.htm
Nice article from the book "Performance by Design - Computer Capacity Planning by Example" by Virgilio A.F. Almeida, Lawernce W.Dowdy, Daniel A.Menasce.
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=170721&seqNum=2&rl=1
Watch out for more information about Performance Engineering Vedas shortly.

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