1. A method for identifying performance issues in an application under test (AUT), the AUT executing on a system under test (SUT) in a test environment, the AUT using one or more context parameters of the SUT and/or the test environment, the method comprising: identifying, by a computer, performance antipatterns in trace data generated by the AUT when executing a set of test suites based on a set of performance antipattern definition rules, each performance antipattern associated with one or more context parameters; identifying, by the computer, one or more performance test suites that cause the AUT to use at least one of the one or more context parameters associated with the identified antipatterns; ranking, by the computer, the list of identified performance test suites based on respective priority values associated with each identified antipattern the priority values are based on a heuristic approach including assessing severity of an impact to performance of the AUT and/or the SUT or severity of the impact to AUT software code maintainability; and performing, by the computer, at least one test suite in the list of identified performance test suites first based on a highest priority value from the priority values in the ranking.