Two recent events had me thinking about the subject line. One was a Webinar given by CloudBees titled, “ Adding Performance Testing into the Continuous Integration Process “ (the link is the Webex recording), the other was reading a blogpost shared by a colleague, "Combining Agile with Load and Performance Testing: What am I in for?” In essence both of these presentations ask the same basic question -- with all the focus on Continuous Integration and rapid feedback, "Why hasn’t development embraced Performance Testing as part of their development cycles?" The short answer from both — “It’s Hard”