Automating Performance Testing for Web Applications: A Practical Approach (Elective)

This course covers the Elective area of the Certified Test Manager (CTM) certification, Certified Software Test Professional certification and the CSTAS certification.

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Concepts

Performance problems related to Web and Client/Server applications are known to all organization. Many companies have developed or integrated their critical applications using Web Technologies. As these applications become more complex, testing of such applications is critical, particularly from the standpoint of performance. Automation of testing is further complicated due to its inherent complex process. Since automation is the only solution for better quality and regression testing, there is a need for learning performance test automation. This tutorial provides an in-depth study of how to plan and conduct performance testing in an automated environment using Tools.

Participants will learn:

• Automate Performance Testing for better quality and efficiency
• Learn how to prepare for Performance Test Automation
• Learn how to develop workload for Automation
• Learn how to build Test Scripts for Automation
• Learn how to select a tool for Performance Test automation
• Learn various issues involved in Test setup and Test execution
• Learn how to analyze Test results and identify bottlenecks

Outline

This one-day course is targeted for system analyst, test engineers, Test analyst, performance analysts and those who have involved in day-to-day conduction of performance testing and analysing performance results on Web based medium to large scale applications. This tutorial mainly covers how to conduct performance testing automatically and analyse the results.

• Performance in general
  • Introduction
  • Different view of Performance Testing
  • Need for Performance testing
• Why, When and How to Automate?
  • Need for Performance test automation
  • Whether the proposed system is a right candidate for automation?
  • What Quality characteristics must be maintained during automation?
  • Discussion on Manual Vs Automation
  • Set the discussion on how to automate.
• Pre Automation Phase
  • Analyse Performance Requirements
  • Automation planning phase
  • Develop user profile and Workload Planning
  • Build Workload and develop Test Scripts
  • Selection of tools and issues
  • Set up Test Environment
  • Strategise Test Runs
  • Case study on Workload Creation
• Test Execution and Analysis of Results
  • Test Scheduling,
  • Entry/Exit criteria
  • Elaboration Test
  • Self Satisfaction Test
  • Issues during Test execution
  • Case study and discussion
• 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
  • Discussion with case study