Performance Testing Foundations

Introduction

• Fast is better

1. Introduction to Performance Testing

• What is performance testing?
• Why do performance testing?
• Questions that help you get started
• Your first performance test

2. Measurement in Performance Testing

• Figuring out what to measure
• Understanding bottlenecks
• Monitoring results
• Challenge: Find the bottleneck
• Solution: Find the bottleneck

3. Types of Performance Testing

• Load testing
• Stress testing
• Endurance testing
• Spike testing
• Scalability testing

4. Reporting Performance Testing

• Just a little bit about statistics
• Charting and plotting
• Logging and parsing data
• Challenge: Create a performance test
• Solution: Create a performance test

5. Resources and Tools

• Single user tools
• Load testing tools
• Network interception tools

Conclusion

• Next steps