System Performance Testing A Case Study, Part 1: Developing the Test Strategy (ver 5.5 Feb 2005)
Posted: June 1st, 2008 | Author: TnT Admin | Filed under: Resources | Tags: Resources | No Comments »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.
Through the case study and series of exercises, you will learn:
- Planning and preparing for effective performance testing
- How to develop a performance test strategy in a typical mixed-technology, mixed-vendor environment with multiple interdependent application systems.
- How to set performance goals and testing objectives.
- How to perform a risk assessment and use it to focus and prioritize the test efforts.
- How to design the test lab, and allow for the differences between the lab and the real-world infrastructure which will be utilized in live operation.
- How to design realistic test work loads.
- Executing performance tests and evaluating results.
- How to use automated load testing tools effectively, and minimize opportunities for tool mis-utilization.
- How to decide what to measure and what data to collect.
- How to organize and run a performance test.
- How to interpret the harvest of performance data and form meaningful, trustworthy conclusions about performance in live operation.
- Why and how system performance testing is fundamentally different from performance engineering, system optimization and feature testing.
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