March 2004 - Posts

• Timing your code

  Timing your code One of the fundamental aspects of performance testing is identifying how long it will take you to execute the code you’re writing. There are a few ways you can measure this: measuring time elapsed while your code executes, computing Read More... Posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:51 PM by billwert | 2 Comments Filed under: Perf

• What To Watch

  [Housekeeping stuff. I added categories. Neat stuff.] RichB asked me yesterday in the comments to my first post: “What are the range of metric values I should expect to see for a given scenario. For example, how many gen1 collections per minute Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 09, 2004 2:25 PM by billwert | 1 Comments Filed under: Perf

• Managed Code Performance

  I never quite know how to start something like this without sounding a bit goofy. “Hi there” seems odd, seeings as I have no real idea who I'm talking to yet. Ah well. My name is Bill Wert. I'm a Software Test Engineer on the CLR Performance Read More... Posted Monday, March 08, 2004 6:13 PM by billwert | 5 Comments Filed under: Perf