20 | Agile testing
Making agile
performance testing
fl y
When EasyJet adopted agile
EasyJet’s test team leader James
Mackay ensured that its performance
software development it
B
efore describing how
we met the challenge of
performance testing in assurance framework aligned with
an agile environment it is the EasyJet agile development
was unclear how much time
worth explaining how performance methodology. “Capacitas provides
would be available to conduct
testing should fi t within the general a performance testing consultation
development and service management and outsourced testing service for
performance testing.
methodology. The fi rst thing to note EasyJet. The rapid agile development
is that performance testing should methodology requires a very short
Paul Seaton-Smith, principal
not be conducted in isolation. It is one window for performance testing each
of a group of performance assurance month. Capacitas and the EasyJet
consultant at Capacitas activities that can reduce uncertainty testing team engaged early on in
describes how it met the
about the risk of performance issues. the project design stage, ensuring a
EasyJet’s head of software delivery, smooth transition from conceptual
challenges of testing after the
Colin Rees comments: “Capacitas design, risk assessment, test planning,
delivered a cost-effective and rapid scripting and performance testing
number of software releases
performance assurance process to producing results for release
to support our adoption of agile decisions. By ensuring all phases of
increased from four per year
development. The performance the performance testing are planned
assurance process has proven to upfront it is possible for risk mitigation
to one per month with an
be robust and prevented critical performance testing to be conducted
agile approach.
performance defects being released within very short testing window.
into our business-critical The power in the model is the two-
e-commerce systems.” pronged testing strategy of using
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