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As one of the first consultants to work with a client, I'll sometimes get questions about testing approaches with SDL Tridion. I've served as a business analyst before and have done light testing, but the Tridion-related answer for testing really depends on what you mean by testing.

For example, I once had a research prompt to find performance monitoring and testing tools for my previous .NET teams and found out the following challenges.

• IT Operations "testing" focuses on bandwidth, packets sniffing, and a more appliance approach. They want to get insight on the stability of systems.
• Developers are focused on personal toolkits of sorts. They can purchase such tools almost out of pocket and are easily approved through a PO, signed by a manager. Think "shrinkwrap" like the options from RedGate.

But this is only a performance subset of "testing" and it's doesn't necessarily focus on stress or load testing.