Performance Testing

1 - Introduction
        ● What is performance?
        ● What is performance testing and performance engineering?
        ● Performance engineering essential needs 
        ● Performance testing introduction
        ● Why performance testing?
        ● When should we start performance testing?
        ● Types of performance testing?
        ● Is cache needed… for performance
        ● N-tier architecture
        ● Key business scenarios identification
        ● Various testing tools and evaluation
        ● Introduction about Jmeter
        ● Components of Jmeter

2 - Jmeter Life cycle
        ● Step I: Plan load test
        ● Step II: Create virtual user scripts
        ● Step III: Create a scenario 
        ● Step IV: Run load test
        ● Step V:  Analyze results
        ● Step VI: Tune based on results

3 - Plan Load Test
        ● Create a performance test plan
        ● Production system usage
        ● Performance environment details
        ● Service Level Agreements
        ● Transactions per Hour (TPH)
        ● DB volumes / Test data
        ● Test schedules

4- Demo project installation
        ● Installing and set up of a demo project
        ● Setting tom cat, apache and mysql port
        ● Using the project for performance test 

5- Create Virtual User Script and load the application
        ● Objectives of thread group
        ● Jmeter Sampler
        ● HTTP Sampler
        ● General options
        ● Recording options
        ● Create a new script
        ● Using Timers
        ● Using Controller
        ● Types of Parameterization & setup
        ● Types of Correlation & setup
        ● Text check point
        ● Script debugging
        ● Few sample functions
        ● Scenario execution
        ● Monitoring Windows and Unix system resources
        ● Online Scenario monitoring
        ● Introduction about Graphs, Settings
        ● How to create report (Word and HTML)
        ● Perfmon counters
        ● Configuring Online Graphs
        ● About Online Monitor Graphs
        ● Configuring Graph Properties
        ● Configuring Graph Measurements 
        ● Merging Graphs 
        ● Viewing Data Offline 
        ● Available Graphs Tree

1 - Introduction
    ● What Is performance?
    ● What is performance testing and performance engineering?
        ● Performance engineering essential needs 
        ● Performance testing introduction
        ● Why performance testing?
        ● When should we start performance testing?
        ● Types of performance testing?
        ● Is cache needed… for performance
        ● N-tier architecture
        ● Key business scenarios identification
        ● Various testing tools and evaluation
        ● Introduction about Load Runner
        ● Components of Load Runner
        ● Load Runner License Information 

2 - Load Runner Life cycle
        ● Step I: Plan load test
        ● Step II: Create virtual user scripts
        ● Step III: Create a scenario 
        ● Step IV: Run load test
        ● Step V:  Analyze results
        ● Step VI: Tune based on results

3 - Plan Load Test
        ● Create a performance test plan
        ● Production system usage
        ● Performance environment details
        ● Service Level Agreements
        ● Transactions per Hour (TPH)
        ● DB volumes / Test data
        ● Test schedules

4- Demo project installation
        ● Installing and set up of a demo project
        ● Setting tom cat, apache and mysql port
        ● Using the project for performance test 

5- Create Virtual User Script
        ● Objectives of Virtual user generator
        ● Load runner protocols
        ● Web (HTTP/HTML)
        ● General options
        ● Recording options
        ● Create a new script
        ● Understanding c
        ● Create few sample scripts in c
        ● Understand the basic concepts of c which is need
        ● Modify our performance script based on concepts of c
        ● Run time settings
        ● Pacing time
        ● Think times
        ● Types of Parameterization & setup
        ● Types of Correlation & setup
        ● Manual correlation
        ● Auto correlation
        ● Correlation rules
        ● Text check point
        ● Script debugging
        ● Few sample functions
        ● Perform the same action on a live application

6 - Create a Scenario & Run load test
        ● Objectives of Controller
        ● Introduction about Controller (Scenarios, Vusers)
        ● Types of Scenarios - Manual and Goal
        ● Scheduling Scenario - Scheduled by group and Schedule by Scenario
        ● Preparation of Load Modelling sheet
        ● Introduction about Monitors and Counters
        ● Counters configuration - Web, App and DB servers
        ● What is a Load generator? Why it's needed
        ● Load generator setup and calculating the maximum users that can be loaded
        ● Connecting to different load generator
        ● Run time settings
        ● Scenario execution
        ● Monitoring Windows and Unix system resources
        ● Online Scenario monitoring

7 - Analyse results
        ● Introduction about Analysis
        ● Introduction about Graphs, Settings
        ● How to create report (Word and HTML)
        ● Perfmon counters
        ● Configuring Online Graphs
        ● About Online Monitor Graphs
        ● Configuring Graph Properties
        ● Configuring Graph Measurements 
        ● Merging Graphs 
        ● Viewing Data Offline 
        ● Available Graphs Tree

9 - Final Performance testing report
        ● Create a final performance test results document by setting counters
        ● Analyse the graph and find the bottleneck in application
        ● Tweak the server
        ● Repeat the test and launch the stable application