As distributed heterogeneous systems grow, the causes of poor application performance have become both more difficult and complicated to effectively isolate and fix. Tools for test and performance management have become more varied creating a lack of testing consistency. This can have a drastic impact on software quality.

This eGuide explores how to effectively optimize application performance management. It provides an overview of the following critical elements for enhanced performance and testing practices, including:

• Improving application performance throughout the entire development lifecycle
• Current performance and testing tools
• End-user performance management
• Identifying application problems with open source technology
• Java and .Net application performance management
• Agile development processes