As we progress on our journey to performance test our web application. I think it would be appropriate to introduce few key terminology we use in our performance testing.It is important to know what are expectations from our performance testing and certain do and don't . so let me get started as i am not going to explain those terms here you might have to figure out yourself :)
Key Terminology
Key Terminology
- Ramp Up/Ramp down
- Users/Threads
- Iterations
- Through put
- WorkLoad/Business Flow
- Request/Response
- Load/Stress
Why Do Performance testing
- Assessing release readiness
- Assessing infrastructure adequacy
- Assessing software performacne adequacy
- Collecting metrics for Performance Tuning
Do and Don't
There are certain do and donts before you perform the performance test.These are again the guideline and all of them might not be applicable.
There are certain do and donts before you perform the performance test.These are again the guideline and all of them might not be applicable.
Do
- Suitable time to Load test when all the parameters like network , user access, application access are under control.
- Define the performance metrics , accepted level or SLA and goals.
- Know the objective of test.
- Know the Application Under Test architecture and details like protocol supported , cookies manages etc.
- Know the Workload Scenarios and peak and normal usage time before the test.
- Use the meaningful test scenario to construct Test Plan which is real life .
- Run the tool on machine other than that running the Application.
- Machine running the tool should have sufficient network bandwidth and resources(memory,CPU).
- Run the test for long duration to have minimum deviations.
- Ensure the application is stable and with no errors logged on log files by manually browsing the application.
- Incorporate the think time to emulate real life scenario.
- Keep Close watch on following (processor, memory,disk and network)
Don't
- Never run the test against servers which are not assigned to test, else you may be accused of DoS attack.
You can see more on performance testing on the blog http://prashantbansode.blogspot.in/
In the next article we will see how we can follow these guidelines and start on performance testing with JMETER!!
In the next article we will see how we can follow these guidelines and start on performance testing with JMETER!!
No comments:
Post a Comment