Pre-requisites For Performance Testing
A stable build of the system which must resemble the production environment as close as is possible.
The performance testing environment should not be clubbed with User acceptance testing (UAT) or development environment. This is dangerous as if an UAT or Integration test or other tests are going on in the same environment, then the results obtained from the performance testing may not be reliable. As a best practice it is always advisable to have a separate performance testing environment resembling the production environment as much as possible.
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