In my post “Can I Function Test My Units?”, I talked about how testers often promoted a misuse of the phrase “functional testing.” I’ve found the same thing happens with the phrase “performance testing.” What I’ve found is that many testers don’t realize that performance testing, just like functional testing, is a test approach. This means there are various testing techniques that you can apply to the approach. If testers don’t have this kind of focus, I believe that the purpose of performance testing can be lost.