Today while browsing the SQA Forums, I found a question very relevant to BrowserMob: should I test on production?
There is no right/wrong answer to whether you should run a test on a production environment. In an ideal world, you’d have a staging environment that is exactly like your production one. But that is rarely actually the case.
Definitely do your initial performance testing internally first. Keep the tests simple and focussed, pinpointing specific parts of the app (certain parts of the UI, the database, etc). Sometimes these tests can be as simple as attaching a profiler (ie: YourKit for Java) to a developer’s desktop and just navigating through the app by hand a few times or playing back a Selenium IDE test 10 times in a row.
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