1 Performance Testing Guidance

1 Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
2 Performance Testing Guidance
3 Internet Web site references
4 Testing the performance of web applications
5 web performance testing
6 software lifecycles
7 Introduction to Performance Testing
8 end-to-end performance testing
9 Identify the Test Environment
10 software and network configurations
11 Implement the Test Design
12 the problems you faced
13 Types of Performance Testing
14 what performance testing is
15 Core Activities of Performance Testing
16 Plan and Design Tests
17 Analyzing the behavior of the application
18 Reasons for testing performance
19 The Relationship Between Performance Testing and Tuning
20 Performance Load and Stress Testing
21 A baseline can be created for a system
22 Baselines assets should be reusable
23 You need to play by the rules
24 Endurance test
25 Performance targets
26 Spike test
27 Validation test
28 Types of Performance Testing
29 Load test
30 Capacity test
31 Detects functionality errors under load
32 Capacity model validation tests
33 Component test
34 the module of code being tested
35 Risks Addressed Through Performance
36 To what should I compare future tests
37 Speed-Related Risks
38 Speed-Related Risk-Mitigation Strategies
39 Scalability-Related Risk-Mitigation Strategies
40 Conduct stress testing with data feeds
41 Coordinating Performance Testing
42 performance-testing projects
43 type of load-generation tool
44 Plan and Design Tests
45 performance-testing activities
46 Analyze Results Report and Retest
47 Interactions with other systems
48 Service Level Agreements
49 Usage scenarios of technical concern
50 Configure the Test Environment
51 get it all working smoothly
52 Archive the tests
53 Dynamic-Link Libraries
54 Immediately share test results
55 test-execution cycles
56 solve major issues early in the project
57 Introduction to the Approach
58 Identify the Value Performance Testing
59 Reprioritize Tasks
60 shift or add more questions
61 Capture implied usage scenarios
62 Refine estimates of equipment
63 Questions to ask
64 How much time is available
65 reuse functional tests
66 Tasks accomplished
67 Update performance-testing objectives
68 Prioritize achievable work
69 Managing an Agile Performance Test Cycle
70 examining the software development project
71 Configure the Test Environment
72 Execute Task
73 Develop a new custom system
74 Understand the Project Environment
75 Monitor resource usage trends
76 Key areas of investigation
77 Completion criteria
78 Performance test execution
79 Record results and significant findings
80 Based on the test results
81 powerful smoke test
82 Capability Maturity Model
83 CMMI Performance-Testing Activities\
84 Identify Performance Acceptance Criteria
85 Execute Work Items
86 performance-testing approach
87 Determine the Process
88 Determine Compliance Criteria
89 Review the Project Plan
90 Performance-Testing Objectives
91 improved performance
92 tests used to validate interim
93 High-visibility usage scenarios
94 User sessions per period
95 Identify Target Load Levels
96 Extrapolation of performance results
97 Report Results and Archive Data
98 Modify the Plan
99 Performance testing in CMMI
100 To Increase Performance Testing Effectiveness
101 capture expected user activities
102 Capture System Functions
103 Capture User Activities
104 Capture the Logical
105 Three-tier Architecture
106 Physical Architecture
107 System Architecture
108 To test a Web farm
109 Quantifying End-User Response Time Goals
110 Determining Performance Testing Objectives
111 Performance thresholds
112 Determine Overall Objectives
113 Ask Team Members
114 Ask the architects
115 Review project documents
116 Share reports with the entire team
117 What is the reason for deciding to test performance
118 Performance Budget
119 Test for 100-percent coverage of all survey types
120 sharing information
121 Quantifying End-User Response Time
122 Terminology
123 Business-critical scenarios
124 How much better
125 How do you expect the application
126 Quantify Captured Performance Goals
127 Quantify Captured Performance Requirements
128 Record Performance Requirements and Goals
129 Consolidating Various Types of Performance Acceptance Criteria
130 the various types of performance characteristics
131 Investigate End-User Requirements
132 Creating a performance plan
133 Determine Technical Requirements
134 Establish Performance-Testing Objectives
135 Review and Update the Performance Plan
136 application users
137 Plan and Design Tests
138 Modeling Application Usage
139 Approach for Modeling Application Usage
140 Web server logs
141 Marketing material
142 Determine Navigation Paths for Key Scenarios
143 Example Visual Representation
144 Web Site Metrics in Web Logs
145 Unified Modeling Language
146 Visual Model of Navigation Paths
147 Quantifying the Volume of Application Usage
148 Start of Model
149 Distribution of work
150 Usage Models
151 Prepare to Implement the Model
152 Determining Individual User Data and Variances
153 Improperly Modeling User Delays
154 Determine User Delays
155 Apply Delay Ranges
156 Linear or Uniform Distribution
157 Negative Exponential Distribution
158 Double Hump Normal Distribution
159 Determining Individual User Data
160 User Abandonment
161 re-executing the test
162 Execute Tests
163 Approach for Test Execution
164 validating a test environment
165 network interface cards
166 Test data validation
167 check the application database
168 Do the preliminary results make sense
169 Record results and significant findings
170 Do the preliminary results make sense
171 A baseline is specific to an application
172 Validate test scripts
173 Mathematic Principles for Performance Testers
174 Exemplar Data Sets
175 Summary of Data Sets
176 100 total data points
177 standard deviation for the data set
178 Standard Deviations
179 Uniform Distributions
180 Statistical Significance
181 Result Comparison
182 Confidence Intervals
183 expected-case user community models
184 interpret statistical data
185 Performance Test Reporting Fundamentals
186 Report Visually
187 Summarize Data Effectively
188 Use Concise Verbal Summaries
189 End-user Response Times
190 Resource Utilizations
191 Processor Time and Queue
192 Bandwidth consumed
193 Sequential Consecutive Database Updates
194 Response Time Trends for Key Pages
195 Project-Level Managers
196 Raw Data Display
197 Stakeholder Reports
198 Exemplar Results Graph
199 Exemplar Test Environment Graphic
200 Creating a Stakeholder Report
201 Exemplar Workload Model Graphic
202 Exemplar Observations and Recommendations Statement
203 Exemplar References Section
204 Stress Testing Web Applications
205 Design tests to simulate the load
206 Performance acceptance criteria
207 Identify Performance Acceptance Criteria
208 Identify Key Scenarios
209 Identify Target Load Levels
210 Identify supporting metrics
211 Run Tests
212 Analyze the Results
213 Examples of Stress Conditions
214 To perform stress testing
215 Stress Testing Steps
216 Identify the Workload
217 Estimate peak user loads
218 Transactions succeeded
219 Simulate Load
220 Transactional stress testing
221 Stress testing centers