Performance Testing - 1 day course

Duration: 1 day

Date: Thursday May 15th 2008

Venue: The Werks, 45 Church Road, Brighton & Hove, BN3 2BE

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Developed and delivered by Scott Barber - a world leader in the field of performance & software testing.

Course Objectives:

This course is aimed at 'Managers' and 'Executives'

In this course, you will learn:

• Nine core principles found in most successful performance testing projects
• How to communicate the application performance aspects of your buisiness objectives
• How to apply the core principles into your team’s development process
• How to plan ahead without reducing your ability to react to change
• How to determine and apply oracles to software system performance criteria

Course Outline:

Nine core principles of successful performance testing:

• Context
• Criteria
• Design
• Instrument
• Script
• Execute
• Analyze
• Report
• Iterate
• Principles does not equal Process

CORE PRINCIPLE: Context

• Why Do We Test Performance?
• Criteria
• Objectives
• Procedures
• Environments
• Project
• User
• Business
• Systems
• Know The Commanders Intent

CORE PRINCIPLE:Criteria

• Relating Business Objectives to Performance Testing Projects
• Goals
• Requirements
• Thresholds
• Constraints
• Determine Testing Objectives

CORE PRINCIPLES: Design, Instrument, & Script

Design:

• Overview
• What To Test
• Under What Conditions
• Communicating Design

Instument:

• Overview
• Test Environment
• Load Generation Environment
• People
• Process
• Attitudes

Script:

• Overview
• Challenges
• How You Can Help

CORE PRINCIPLES: Execute & Analyze

Execute:

• Overview
• What Is A Performance Test?
• A Collaborative, Cross Functional Process
• Who Leads When

Analyze:

• Overview
• A Collaborative, Cross Functional Process
• Follow-on Testing
• Feeds Re-Design

CORE PRINCIPLE: Report

Concepts

• Overview
• Mathematic and Statistical Principles
• You Set The Degree of Formality

Demand performance reports that:

• Timely
• Relevant to Business Objectives
• Audience Appropriate
• Visual
• Intuitive
• Supported

CORE PRINCIPLE: Iterate

• Don’t Confuse Delivery with Done.