In this month's issue of Software Test and Performance, Michele Kennedy shares a great experience report on troubleshooting performance issues. It includes some great tips, recommends some free tools, and includes some real examples. It's a good read. I wish more performance testing articles were written this way - real examples.

The third and final article in my SearchSoftwareQuality.com Testing for Performance series posted. The complete series can be found here:

• Testing for performance, part 1: Assess the problem space


• Testing for performance, part 2: Build out the test assets


• Testing for performance, part 3: Provide information