Some of the power points that are available in ISQT’ Step Auto Conference on Security and Performance Testing held on 18th September 2008 can be founder in the below link. Below are the slides available: Read the rest of this entry »
Loadtester Incorporated have a wide collection of articles, whitepapers, PowerPoint’s, Word Documents and PDF files all dealing with load testing, stress testing, and capacity planning. You need not be unexperienced LoadRunner or Performance Tester to fully appreciate the articles. Some of the resources that I find particularly useful are articles that cover counters for MS SQL 2000, Citrix, RDP Protocol Basics, WinSock Protocol and VTS. There are two links of resources to be precise, one to the articles written by the company. The other to the library. Click the below link to access the resources.
If you are pretty new to scripting with LoadRunner VUGen, chances that you will miss one or two important steps, that may be missing out of the think time settings, number of iterations, insufficient parameters, location of load generators, areas to encompass a transaction, etc… Therefore, it will be a good idea to have a checklist to keep track of the things done for each script. Aravind Kumar have one of this tools with him to make his work easier and below is a copy that you can utilize for your next script development. Click on link to download: Read the rest of this entry »
This case study, written by Ross Collard of Collard & Company describes a situation in which a performance test is needed. The assignment is to identify and analyze the business and technical issues and develop a test strategy for the situation. This strategy describes how testing is used to predict the system’s actual performance, in order to assess whether it will be acceptable in live operation. Read the rest of this entry »
A list of recommended books that touches on protocol communications and performance monitoring and tuning. Great for testers and performance engineer seeking for additional knowledge to perform their work. Read the rest of this entry »