by: J.D. Meier, Scott Barber, Carlos Farre, Prashant Bansode, and Dennis Rea is now available on Amazon.

Reviewed by: Alberto Savoia, Ben Simo, Cem Kaner, Chris Loosley, Corey Goldberg, Dawn Haynes, Derek Mead, Karen N. Johnson, Mike Bonar, Pradeep Soundararajan, Richard Leeke, Roland Stens, Ross Collard, Steven Woody, Alan Ridlehoover, Clint Huffman, Edmund Wong, Ken Perilman, Larry Brader, Mark Tomlinson, Paul Williams, Pete Coupland, and Rico Mariani.


The book is an excellent starting point for learning about performance testing and performance engineering practices and I can tell you it is loaded with good advice about how to "think" about load testing. It covers the concepts and perspectives that some of the best engineers in our industry apply every day, to some of the toughest performance problems.

One of those guys is Scott Barber (note: an unabashed plug for Scott's work) who was a major contributor to this book. According to Scott's own blog entry about the book: "Even though this as a Microsoft patterns&practices book, it is a tool, technology, & process agnostic book...the book should apply equally well to a LoadRunner/Eclipse/Agile project it applies to a VSTS/.NET/CMMI project." You can read more of Scott's blog here. In retrospect, I think I failed to truly appreciate Scott's experience and contributions to the writing - in fact, I know I did.

Check out the book (buy it, get the PDF, or view online.)...it's a great way to get started with the performance testing discipline.