Talk:Software performance testing
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[edit] Concerning placing your name inside an article
I assume that Brian.a.wilson is the author of several sections in this article. If so, I would just like to say that it is not necessary to place links to your profile within the article itself; a look at the article's history will suffice. I only mention this because it gives the impression that you are advertising, which I am sure that you are not. As such, I hope that you will not mind that I have taken the liberty to remove your name from the seemingly random places where it appears.
Thanks, Brian, and keep contributing!
[edit] Link Removed
The following link was no longer valid (404), so I removed it. Additionally, from the URL and title, this *appeared* to be marketing rather than informational, but it's impossible to be sure since the page is gone now.
[edit] Hardware/software
It is claimed that: Performance testing almost invariably concludes that it is the software (rather than hardware) that contribute most to delays (bottlenecks) in processing data.
In my experience it's rare that redesigning the software is considered in the scope of the same project as redesigning the hardware. Therefore I'd like to know the basis for this claim. (Subtext: It's bogus.) Grotendeels Onschadelijk 03:29, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Since no one seems to be able to elucidate or substantiate this claim, I am removing it. Grotendeels Onschadelijk 00:51, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Maybe I should offer an explanation of why I think the above claim is false. I accept that in most cases where a performance problem in a system arises, this problem is solved by modifying the software. However, this is not necessarily caused by the fact that the software was designed poorly, but quite often by the fact that it is easier to modify software than to modify hardware. Therefore it is often cheaper to work around a hardware design problem in the software than to change the hardware design, particularly if the hardware design has already gone into production. Grotendeels Onschadelijk 01:17, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
