The Importance of Performance Testing For Residential Wi-Fi Deployment

Somewhat surprisingly, the concept of standardized performance testing is a relatively new concept in the world of Wi-Fi®.

Given the success that Wi-Fi has seen over the decades, why is even more (and different) testing important? That is, why on top of regulatory and conformance testing is there now a focus on standardized performance testing? And how has it been that, over all this time, performance testing has not been an industry focus?