Review the Project Plan

With the system information in hand, it is time to turn to the project plan. It is important to remember that performance testing is a sub-project, not the main project. Therefore it is your responsibility to blend performance testing into the plan with as little overall impact to the project as possible. This is where milestones, checkpoints, builds, and iterations come in.

The specific items you are mostly likely to be interested in relate to hardware components, supporting software, and application functionality becoming available for performance testing. Coupling this information with the compliance criteria; requirements, goals, and objectives, as well as the information you have collected about the system and its usage, you can put together a performance test plan that fits into the project without adding unnecessary overhead.