Performance Testing and Disk Space

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The latest windows update takes up so much additional space that the OS will now reserve an additional 7GB of space for future updates. With most enterprise organizations hyper focused on reigning in costs there will be additional pressure to operate near the red line.

Something as simple as monitoring free disk space become more complex when variables like windows updates could be installed in the middle of the testing cycle.

Automated reporting and analysis becomes even more important with the rate of change increasing daily. Organizations will continue to push for faster delivery of performs test results. Testing teams, including performance testing teams need to identify ways to highlight the low-hanging fruit quickly and easily.

Importance of Granularity

Its easy to get caught up in the analysis of results and miss key bottlenecks by using the default view in HP Analysis.  By simply changing the granularity of the graph, the results often tell a very different story.  Examine the graph below. If the granularity was set to 5 minutes then the spike below would be hidden. 

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