[Zope3-dev] Performance Testing

[Benji York]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 16:20, Benji York wrote: 
>>     >>> browser.open('http://localhost/foo')
>>     >>> browser.last_request_time < 0.5
> 
> I wonder how useful performance tests are to testbrowser, because over time we 
> might add new features that naturally slow it down. On the other hand, if we 
> are tolerant enough, it won't be an issue.

I think we would have no (or very, very few) functional tests in the 
core that would have performance assertions.  On the other hand, I 
strongly desire the ability to make these per-request assertions in the 
tests for a particular application.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation