We are going to explore whether Load Test Driven Development is an idea that would be worth pursuing for your organisation. We will recap on what Test-Driven Development (TDD) is in the next section but fundamentally Now when you think about this, does it make sense to try and run a performance test before we have developed any code? We think it does and we are going to explain why. For clarity we are not suggesting that Load test Driven Development should replace TDD but rather to compliment it.

It’s been a while since the last update post in july 2021, not that we haven’t updated OctoPerf since then but the additions we’ve made are not easy to share in a blog. Allow me to take an example.