Load Testing in the Cloud

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MSDN Load Test Blog Dead?

Posted Sat, 09/18/2010 - 1:51pm by Scott Price

So I sit here in my office on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, and I'm trying to find more good blogs on load & performance testing. Lots of sources, but many of them aren't posting very often. I'm trying to find a steady stream of good content. Dynatrace seems to really have the best and most active web performance blogging posts.

Then I came across MSDN blogs. Seemed like a great place to find posts about load testing. Ah...here it is, just what I was looking for: VSTS Load Test Team Blog.

Software Testing and Requirements

Posted Wed, 12/10/2008 - 6:17pm by Scott Price

Project studies by IBM, GTE, TRW, and several other large corporations have shown that an error in requirements detected in later phases of the software development life cycle increases costs by:

  • 500% for architectural design
  • 1,000% for coding
  • 2,000% for unit testing
  • 5,000% for acceptance testing
  • 10,000% for maintenance

With such an impact on project costs, there is no wonder that few software development efforts come in under budget and on time.

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