Performance Engineering to Encompass Performance Testing – A move from PT to PE
Performance testing is done to understand how an application would behave under load. Its primary focus is on the user experience and on the effect a bug could have on the overall user satisfaction. QA specialists will focus on specific test scripts and their successful execution against a pre-defined benchmark. The gap however is QA professionals often take a partial look at a specific parts of the system rather than at the product as a whole. This gap needs to be addressed by switching from performance testing to Performance Engineering.
