mySAP Tool Bag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing (HP Professional Series)

All enterprise applications must be tuned for maximum performance prior to deploying a new or updated solution into a productive environment. There are more than 60,000 in-place mySAP systems being continually upgraded to incorporate new hardware/software platforms as well as to integrate new mySAP components. According to a 2001 study, the average SAP implementation endured a major upgrade or addition to their SAP enterprise solution every other year. Further, a thousand more systems are being implemented each year. With competition a mouse-click away, or entire organizations depending upon the excellent performance and availability of their internal systems, tuning and the load testing that underpins this tuning is a necessity, not a luxury. However, there is no single book dedicated to mySAP performance tuning and stress testing. This book walks readers through understanding the role of each component within their SAP technology stack. It helps readers assemble a detailed project plan for stress-testing and subsequently tuning an organization's unique technology stack, guiding them through successfully performing an end-to-end stress test. Readers will understand component-level stress testing as well, and how this supports larger solution-level stress testing. This book also compares stress testing to functional and integration testing, and explains how they differ and why different toolsets and mindsets are required to successfully stress test an enterprise system.