Performance testing and optimizing your application can be pretty challenging. Luckily, there are quality assurance tools on the market that can make the process easier.

Read this expert resource to learn more about these tools and how to use them in a typical Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) environment. Also find four simple steps to follow to effectively track down the bottlenecks in your system, including:

• Functional testing
• Load and scalability testing
• Interpreting the results
• And optimization.