The systematic collection of comparative production information for use in decision making to improve efficiency and profitability of swine production.
The systematic collection of comparative production information for use in decisionmaking to improve efficiency and profitability of beef production. Differences in performance among cattle must be used in decision-making for performance testing to be beneficial. The most useful performance records for management, selection, and promotion decisions will vary among purebred breeders and for purebred breeders compared with commercial cattle producers.
A quality control program designed to monitor the analytical accuracy and precision of a drug-testing laboratory. This is accomplished by periodically submitting human urine samples intentionally "spiked" with a drug or drug metabolite to laboratories being monitored. Test results must conform to predetermined limits of accuracy and precision.
Testing conducted to evaluate the compliance of a system or component with specified performance requirements. Often this is performed using an automated test tool to simulate large number of users. Also know as "Load Testing".
Testing a product under known given loads; in particular, in terms of numbers of users and volumes of data and the measurement of the speed with which data is processed along with the associated response times. Traditionally, measuring the length of time a functional test takes to execute is a poor measure of performance. This is because much of the time taken to perform a test is spent checking that an element of functionality has worked correctly, rather than purely the execution of the element. With careful design, functional tests can show useful performance data (indeed, they can show exactly which elements of functionality are executing quickly or slowly).