Comments on: Importance of parallel test environments http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2007/03/19/873/ Web development and design with a little VFX thrown in for fun Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:45:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: nard http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2007/03/19/873/comment-page-1/#comment-11894 nard Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:10:29 +0000 http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2007/03/19/873/#comment-11894 yes, i've experienced the same thing as you, since I just completed performance testing. although I ran into a different situation where we shared a load balancer with production lol. But parallel environments are quite expensive. especially if the qa environment is a parallel of production already and you need one for staging or performance testing. I think the way to go is a virtualized environment for QA, and a staging environment that is the same specs/design as production for doing all the fun stuff. that way it does not interfere with QA trying to finish their testing cycles, and gives you a good idea how it will be like when it is deployed on production like hardware. yea, i was also surprised at how slow webservices were when I was querying large datasets, but maybe i wasnt really doing it very smart in how i requested the information lol =p yes, i’ve experienced the same thing as you, since I just completed performance testing. although I ran into a different situation where we shared a load balancer with production lol. But parallel environments are quite expensive. especially if the qa environment is a parallel of production already and you need one for staging or performance testing. I think the way to go is a virtualized environment for QA, and a staging environment that is the same specs/design as production for doing all the fun stuff. that way it does not interfere with QA trying to finish their testing cycles, and gives you a good idea how it will be like when it is deployed on production like hardware.

yea, i was also surprised at how slow webservices were when I was querying large datasets, but maybe i wasnt really doing it very smart in how i requested the information lol =p

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