Conducting Cost-Effective Performance Testing

(CSTP Elective)

This tutorial counts as one day of training towards the Certified Software Test Professional requirements.

With the mass migration of applications from a client-server to a web-based framework, system architectures are once again becoming centralized. This centralization has created a huge need for performance testing. However, even to a seasoned functional test automation professional, the transition to performance testing can seem daunting.
The attendee should be familiar with standard quality assurance concepts and processes. The presentation covers technical concepts necessary to understanding the performance testing practice but presents the material in such a way as to be appreciated by both technical and less-technical practitioners.

Course Outline

Traditional enterprise performance testing process

Modern architectural performance testing approach

Setting up the test environment

Hardware requirements

Networking requirements

Understanding Protocols

Available performance tools

Scripting languages

Additional tools and requirements

Rapid analysis techniques

Learning Objectives

The course attendee will learn a set of best practices using the most effective performance testing methodologies available. Course material is derived from dozens of performance testing projects requiring different protocols and conducted using multiple tools.