Performance Testing with LoadRunner

Good to have:

• Understanding of any programming language like C, Java etc.
• Understanding of any operating system like Windows, UNIX etc.

Audience

• Testing Managers
• Performance testers or Performance engineers
• Developers who want grow their career in performance testing.

Format of the course

40% lectures, 60% labs

Testing Introduction

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Stages
• Various Methodologies in SLDC (Agile, waterfall etc)
• Functional Testing (Manual/Automation)
• Various testing's as part of SDLC (Unit Testing, IST, UAT etc)
• Performance testing and its importance

Performance Testing Concepts

• Introduction to Performance Testing
• Various tools available in the market
• Performance testing Life Cycle
  • Recommendations/Report
  • Scripting, Execution, Analysis
  • Environment set up
  • Test strategy/Plan
  • POC (Proof of Concept)
  • Requirements gathering
• Understanding of various performance tests.
  • Capacity Planning test
  • Benchmark Test
  • Fail-over/Fail-back Test
  • Stress Test
  • Duration/Endurance Test
  • Load Test
• Introduction to LoadRunner

Scripting, Execution, Analysis in Load Runner

• Scripting using LR VuGen using various protocols
  • Understanding of Winsock, Java vUser and webservices
  • Web (Click & Script)
  • Web (HTTP/HTML)
• Parameterization and various options under it
• Correlation (Manual/Automatic)
• Customized loops/code in scripting
• Execution using LR Controller
  • Understanding of Load Generators
  • Run time settings
  • Manual/Goal-oriented scenario
  • Ramp-up, Constant Duration, Ramp-down
• Analysis using LR Analyzer
  • Granularity
  • Merged graphs
  • Analysis