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JIRA 4 Performance – Part I

This blog is made up of two parts.  In this first part, I will cover JIRA 4 performance, compared to JIRA 3.13.  In the second part, Mark Lassau Andreas Knecht will talk about the benefits of automated performance tests and the improvements to the JIRA codebase made possible by the regular performance telemetry data. The Tests Atlassian has performance tests which are used internally to benchmark the speed of JIRA. These performance tests have been designed to work with a blank installation

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Automated performance testing using JMeter and Maven

When I think of Agile, I tend to think of the awesomeness it can bring me as a performance engineer. I see short cycles where the code is usually always stable and features are delivered incrementally. I get to watch the performance of the system evolve over time. Unfortunately, this means I'm testing software all the time. Thats fine though - none of this is by hand - this kind of repetitive task is perfect for automation. It's clear that automating testing is important - automated tests mean

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