Conference Plenary – a STeP-IN Theme Conference: Performance Testing (April 2008)
Rajesh S - Test Manager, Infosys Technologies Ltd.

With the ever increasing adoption of the web, Businesses are constantly being challenged to ensure that their online applications are able to provide a good quality experience to their customers. This creates a demand on various internal teams like Application architects, developers, Capacity Management and not least, the Performance testing groups to work together in achieving the application performance requirements.

Several IT organizations are investing in Performance Testing Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to cater to the needs and demands of their customers (internal and/or external). Testing, however, is only part of the performance story, and soon enough the CoE faces the business mandate to handle the broader area of software performance engineering. To be successful in meeting their business objectives and leverage their investments, the key imperative for these organizations is to have a clear definition of their existing and future CoE service profile along with a sound technology foundation.