Everything about Software performance testing

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Software performance testingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Comprehensive Review of Performance Testing Methodologies and Best Practices: Software Quality EngineeringInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: High Performance Cluster ComputingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: High performance software testing on SIMD machinesCited 53 times
5. Go sideways: Stress testing (software)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: IBM TPNSA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• High performance software testing on SIMD machines

  E.W. Krauser, A.P. Mathur, V.J. Rego · 1991 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 53 citations

• Early performance testing of distributed software applications

  Giovanni Denaro, Andrea Polini, Wolfgang Emmerich · 2004 · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 32 citations

• Software and Performance Testing Tools

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus, India, Nishi Srivastava · 2021 · Journal of Informatics Electrical and Electronics Engineering (JIEEE) · 18 citations

• Performance testing of LiDAR exploitation software

  M. Varela-González, H. González-Jorge, B. Riveiro · 2013 · Computers & Geosciences · 17 citations

• FOREPOST: finding performance problems automatically with feedback-directed learning software testing

  Qi Luo, Aswathy Nair, Mark Grechanik · 2015 · Empirical Software Engineering · 16 citations

• Some new models of software testing with performance comparisons

  T. Downs, P. Garrone · 1991 · IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 11 citations

• A Study of Performance Testing in Configurable Software Systems

  Xue Han · 2021 · Journal of Software Engineering and Applications · 3 citations

• Performance testing of 3D point cloud software

  M. Varela-González, H. González-Jorge, B. Riveiro · 2013 · ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Comprehensive Review of Performance Testing Methodologies and Best Practices: Software Quality Engineering

  Shravan Pargaonkar · 2023 · International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) · 25 citations

• Scalability testing automation using multivariate characterization and detection of software performance antipatterns

  Alberto Avritzer, Ricardo Britto, Catia Trubiani · 2022 · Journal of Systems and Software · 9 citations

• Testing Self-Adaptive Software With Probabilistic Guarantees on Performance Metrics: Extended and Comparative Results

  Claudio Mandrioli, Martina Maggio · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 5 citations

• High-performance SiL Testing for ADAS Application Software

  Christoph Wellershaus, Stefan Bernsteiner, Martin Herrmann · 2025 · ATZ worldwide · 1 citations

• Enhancing Performance of Software Testing Automation using Selenium Web Grid

  Mr. Sundaramohan S · 2023 · International Research Journal on Advanced Engineering Hub (IRJAEH) · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• High Performance Cluster ComputingRajkumar Buyya · 1999
• Computer performance evaluationRamon Puigjaner · 1998
• Accelerating Test Validation And Debug Of High Speed Serial InterfacesYongquan Fan · 2010
• Web engineeringEmilia Mendes · 2005
• 📕Measuring fault tolerance with the FTAPE fault injection toolTimothy K. Tsai · 1995
• Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization, and SimulationJose L. Ayala · 2011
• Protocol specification, testing and verification, IVIFIP WG 6.1 International Workshop on Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification (4th 1984 Skytop Lodge, Pa.), Yechiam Yemini · 1985
• Network Performance ToolkitRichard Blum · 2003

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