Course Content
Performance testing Basics
- Basics of Performance Vs Load Vs Stress Vs Volume testing
- Analyzing Performance Criteria
- Design Performance tests
- Identify Performance Parameters (Response time, throughput,memory, CPU utilization) etc
- Creating Performance Test Plan
- Setting up the environment (Servers, load, browsers, time and locations)
- Reporting, Baselining the report
Understanding the web tests
- Introduction
- Coded Web Tests
Creating & Running web tests
- Recording the web test
- Editing the web test
- Adding new request
- Properties
- Request Sub items
- Transactions
- Comments
- Context Parameters
- Paramaterization
- Extraction Rules
- Validation Rules
- Setting Think time
- Setting up SLA
- Credentials set up
- Data driven tests
- Debugging a web test
- Running a web test
Working with Load Tests
- Understanding the load test
- Creating the load test
- Set up load test, run time settings
- Load Test Results repository
- Running the load test
- Load test summary
Controllers, Agents & Rigs
- About Controllers,Agents & Rigs
- Add an Agent to a controller
- Administer a test Rig
- Run a test on a Rig
Advanced Topics
- VSTS2010 New Features
- Load test plug-ins
- Troubleshooting the load tests
- Troubleshooting Controllers, Agents & Rigs
- Error Handling
- Enabling IP Switching
- Monitoring System Resources
- Analysing Root Cause Analysis
