Performance Testing & Tuning Techniques

• Overview of the performance testing process
• Setting up the test environment
• Hardware & Networking requirements
• Available performance tools
• Scripting languages
• Additional tools and requirements
• Basic analysis techniques
• Performance Project Questionnaire
• Performance Test Plan & Reports
• Translating Business requirements
• Demonstrating accuracy
• Data challenges and solutions
• Monitoring techniques

Automating Performance Testing for Web Applications & Improving Performance through Standards and Processes

• Automating Performance Testing for Web Applications
  • Automate Performance Testing for better quality and efficiency
  • A different view of Performance Testing
  • Analyze Performance Requirements
  • Automation planning phase
  • Develop user profile and Workload Planning
  • Test Execution and Analysis of Results
  • Post Test Automation Phase
  • Review of Test runs with Test logs
  • Different mechanisms used for result presentation
  • Filtering and overlapping of result and its importance
  • Analysis of results feedback process to automation
• Improving Performance through Standards and Processes
  • Understand the relationship of IT standards to international standards
  • Define Mission Critical Processes with internal and external customers
  • Use the New Process Development Model to develop
  • Deploy processes and standards, procedures and guidelines
  • Measure standards usage, effectiveness, and efficiency
  • Manage standards usage day-to-day
  • Optimize standards
  • Plan and deploy a standards program

Performance Testing for Web and Client/Server Applications & Understanding Performance Testing

• Performance Testing for Web and Client/Server Applications
  • Performance in general (both C/S and Web)
  • Understanding of Issues in Performance Testing
  • Get Ready for Performance Testing
  • Quality characteristics for C/S and Web
  • Build a Strategy for Performance testing of both C/S and Web applications
  • Issues in Test execution
  • Analysis of test results and guidelines
  • Issues in Performance testing
  • Variation of Performance Testing
  • Quality characteristics for C/S and Web
• Understanding Performance Testing
  • Analyze Performance Testing Needs
  • Design Performance Test Suite
  • Design Performance Test Suite
  • Design Performance Test Suite
  • A methodical approach to Performance Testing
  • The need for performance testing
  • Performance testing goals
  • Impact of downtime for an application
  • Performance testing types
  • Develop a test suite execution plan based on the scenarios developed

Understanding Performance Testing

• A methodical approach to Performance Testing
• The need for performance testing
• Performance testing goals
• Impact of downtime for an application
• Performance testing types
• Develop user transaction matrices to define performance test scenarios to validate individual requirements and end-to-end scenarios
• Perform an effective result analysis
• Review Planning and Acquisition of Test Environment
• Performance Test Suite Integration Test and Debugging
• Develop Results Analysis reports for different performance tests