Mirroring the Production Environment

Mirroring the Production Environment

The performance test environment should be as close to the production environment as possible. This includes the server capacity and configuration, network environment, the Web tier load balancing scheme, and your backend database. By mirroring your production environment you ensure that your throughput numbers will be more accurate.

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If production equivalent hardware is not feasible for your performance-testing environment, you can still uncover many bottlenecks in the code and architecture. Even though a production equivalent environment is optimal, performance testing is possible in almost any environment you can scrape together.