This guide discusses pragmatic, experience-based best practices for automating performance testing within CI/CD pipelines, highlighting the importance of early and continuous performance feedback to keep pace with rapid development cycles. It covers assessing automation readiness, prioritizing and systematizing tests based on business risks, and choosing the right targets for automation, with a focus on APIs for early wins. The guide also emphasizes the need for scripting ease, co-locating test and application code, developing performance pipelines, utilizing dynamic infrastructure, and ensuring trustworthy go/no-go decisions. Additionally, it outlines foundational requirements for successful automated testing and offers practical solutions to common automation challenges.

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