Understanding Performance Testing (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

Through lecture and exercises , this 1-day class is designed to detail the planning and preparation effort involved in Performance Testing. The course presents the steps and techniques used to develop an effective Performance Test Plan and to conduct the performance test.

Participants will learn:

• A methodical approach to Performance Testing
• The need for performance testing
• Performance testing goals
• Impact of downtime for an application
• Performance testing types
• How to develop user transaction matrices to define performance test scenarios to validate individual requirements and end-to-end scenarios
• How to develop test suite execution plan based on the scenarios developed
• How to perform an effective result analysis

Outline

• Lesson 1: Analyze Performance Testing Needs
  • Activity: Discuss System Under Test Analysis
  • Activity: Review Planning and Acquisition of Test Environment
  • Exercise 1: Develop Transaction Matrix
  • Exercise 2: Develop Performance Scenarios
• Lesson 2: Design Performance Test Suite
  • Exercise 3: Create an Execution Flow Diagram
  • Activity: Review Performance Low-Level Design Architecture
  • Exercise 4: Develop Performance Test Plan
  • Exercise 5 - Develop a Test for a specific type of Performance test
• Lesson 3: Construct Performance Test Suite
  • Activity: Performance Test Suite Integration Test and Debugging
• Lesson 4: Execute Performance Test Suite
  • Activity: Review Performance Test Suite Execution activities
  • Exercise 6 - Develop Results Analysis reports for different performance tests
• Lesson 5: Close out Performance Test Suite
• Summary