PERFORMANCE TESTING COURSE CONTENT

Batch Schedule:

Chapter 1: Introduction to performance testing

• What is performance testing?
• Why we need performance testing?
• Test Architecture
• How to do performance testing?
• Performance testing tools available in market

Chapter 2: Types of performance testing

• Smoke Test
• Load Test
• Stress Test
• Endurance Test
• Spike Test
• Volume Test
• Failover/Break Test

Chapter 3: Performance Test Life Cycle

• Requirement Gatherings
• Test Strategy/Planning
• Design – Scripting
• Monitoring and Execution
• Analysis and Reports

Chapter 4 :LoadRunner Installation

• What is performance testing
• LoadRunner architecture
• Where to install LoadRunner components
• Identify hardware and software needed for installation
• Installing Loadrunner samples

VUGEN

Chapter 5 : Introduction to VUSER Concept

• Definition of Vuser&Vuser Types
• Why VUGEN is Used
• Features of VUGEN
• Settings to be done before recording
• Modes of recording
• Choosing the right protocol&Types of protocol loadrunner supports
• Single and Multiple protocols
• When and how to use more than one Action

Chapter 6: First touch to VUGEN&Recording Script using VUGEN

• Starting VUGEN
• Understanding VUGEN Environment Options
• Choosing the right protocol
• VUSER Script sections (Init, Action and end), When and how to use more than one Action
• Creating New Virtual VUSER script
• Adding and removing protocols
• Choosing New Virtual user category
• Begin Recording on your application
• Ending and Saving a recording session
• Running the Created Script
• Introduction to Output window in VUGEN
• Replay Log,RecordingLog,Generation Log
• Correlation Results
• Understanding the VUSER script
• Viewing and modifying VUSER scripts
• Understanding the functions generated in the code
• Getting Help on functions
• Workflow Wizard
• Walkthrough on few Loadrunner functions
• Recap of Steps for creating Vuser Scripts

Chapter 7: Introduction to VUGEN parameters

• Definition of parameter
• Why parameterization is required
• Parameters Limitations
• Creating Parameters
• Types of parameters
• Using Existing Parameters
• Using Parameter List
• Parameterization options
• Creating data files
• Properties of file type parameters
• properties of table type parameters
• Setting Parameters properties
• Introduction to setting parameter properties
• Setting properties for internal data parameter types
• Setting properties for user defined functions
• Choosing parameter formats

Chapter 8: Data Assignment methods

• Sequential
• Random
• Unique
• Data Update Modes:
• Each Occurrence
• Each Iteration
• Once

Chapter 9 : Configuring Run time settings

• About Run time settings
• Configuring run time settings
• pacing run time settings
• Configuring Log run time settings
• Configuring Think time settings

Chapter 10 : Correlations

• Introduction to correlations
• Auto Correlation
• Wdiff Utility
• Manual Correlation

Chapter 11 : Introduction to Transactions

• What are transactions
• Why we need transactions
• How to insert transactions in the script

Chapter 12 :Introduction to content check

• Why we need Content checks
• How to use the inbuilt content checks
• How to build your own content checks

Chapter 13 :Error Handling

• VuGen Script Enhancements
• VuGen Scripting Challenges
• Web Services Protocol Performance Testing
• LR Functions, C Functions

Controller

Chapter 14 : Introduction to controller

• Opening controller
• Why we need controller
• Significance of controller
• Features on controller
• Planning the test
• Creating Vuser Script
• Creating the scenario
• Running the scenario
• Monitoring the scenario
• Analyzing the scenario
• Designing a scenario
• Creating a scenario
• Run scenario with sample Vuser load
• Manual Scenario
• Goal Oriented scenario
• Introduction to Load generators
• What is load generator
• Why we need load generators
• About Scheduling scenarios
• Delaying the start of scenarios
• Scheduling a scenario
• Scheduling Vuser groups
• Adding Vuser to Scheduled scenarios
• Creating Vuser groups
• Configuring Vusers in Vuser group.
• Configuring Vuser run time settings
• Configuring scripts
• Setting time out intervals
• Configuring Scenario run time settings
• Setting the run time file location
• Specifying results location
• Collating results
• Running entire scenario
• Controlling Vuser groups
• Controlling individual Vusers
• Manually adding Vuser to running scenario
• Manually adding Vuser to Rendezvous
• About viewing vusers during executions
• Monitoring Vuser status
• Viewing the output window
• Viewing Vuser script log
• Logging execution notes
• About Planning goal oriented scenario
• Understanding goal oriented scenario design tab
• Defining scenario goals
• Assigning properties to scripts
• Configuring scripts

Chapter 15 :Monitoring and Analysis:

• Online Monitoring
• Setting up the Monitoring environment
• Monitor types, Counters, Client & Server
• Choosing Monitors and measurements in the controller
• Starting the monitors in the controller
• Opening online monitor graphs in the controller
• Setting monitor options

JMETER

Chapter 1: JMeter Basics

• Pre-Requisites for installation
• Installation of Tool
• Terminology used in performance testing
• Types of testing can be executed on JMeter

Chapter2: Components of JMeter

• Test plan, Thread Group, Workbench
• Samplers
• HTTP(S) Sampler
• Test Action
  • Logic Controllers
• Only Once Controller
• Throughput Controller
• If Controller
• While Controller
• Transaction Controller
  • Configuration Elements
• CSV Data Set Config
• HTTP Authentication Manager
• HTTP Cache Manager
• HTTP Cookie Manager
• HTTP Request Defaults
• User Defined Variables
• Transaction Controller
  • Assertions
• CSV Data Set Config
• HTTP Authentication Manager
• HTTP Cache Manager
• HTTP Cookie Manager
• HTTP Request Defaults
• HTTP Header Manager
• User Defined
  • Assertions
• Response Assertion
  • Timers
• Constant Timer
• Gaussian Random Timer
  • Pre-Processor
• User Parameters
  • Post Processor
• Regular Expression Extractor
  • Listeners
• Graph Results
• View Results Tree
• Aggregate Report
• View Results in Table
• Response Time Graph

Chapter3: Recording with JMeter

• Proxy Settings
• Proxy Settings
• What to Record?
• What Not to Record?
• Recording Procedure

Chapter4: Enhancements in Scripts

• Parameterization
• What is parameterization?
• How to implement parameterization in JMeter?
• Types of parameterization in JMeter
• How to use parameterization in execution
  • Correlations
• What is Correlation?
• How to correlate values?
• Which values need to be correlated?
• Arguments in the correlation function
• How to pick random/sequential values from correlation
• Validations
  • Miscellaneous Features
• Debug Sampler
• setUp Thread Group
• tearDown Thread Group
  • Debugging Script
  • Assertions
  • Think Times and Transaction Names

Chapter 5: Error Handling

Chapter 6: Functions in JMeter

• Time
• StringFromFile
• CSVRead
• Random
• UUID
• Urlencode
• Urldecode

Chapter 7: Plugin of JMeter

• Standard Set
• Extra Set

Chapter 8: Creation of Load test

• Merging Thread Groups
• Assigning Users
• Ramp-up
• Loop Count
• Scheduler
• Adding Listeners

Chapter 9: Execution and Monitoring of Load Tests

• Viewing Results using Aggregate Report
• Viewing Results using Plug-ins
• Monitoring App/Web/DB Servers from JMeter

Reporting in JMeter

• Client Side Metrics
• Server Side Metrics
• Test Results Overview

Chapter 11: Remote Testing with JMeter

• Running JMeter scripts in Multiple systems

Chapter 12: Non-GUI Mode Executions

Core APM: AppDynamics Training

• Introduction to AppDynamics.
• Troubleshooting Basics
• Advanced Troubleshooting and Tools.
• Monitoring the Health of your Application.
• AppDynamics Strategy & Intro to Business Transaction Discovery.
• Managing Business Transactions.
• Proactive Monitoring and Dashboards.

Others:

• CV Preparation Tips
• Interview Tips & Mock Interviews