Performance Testing Foundations

Course details

Slow loading times can drive users away from even the most elegant website or application. But how can you pinpoint where your product's performance issues lie? In this course, join Dave Westerveld as he details the fundamentals of performance testing, including when and how to use the different types of tests and tools at your disposal. Discover how to determine what to measure and how to monitor the results of your tests. Explore the different types of performance testing—including load, stress, and scalability tests—and the contexts in which it's appropriate to use each of them. Plus, learn about a broad set of tools and how to pick the right one for the work you need to do.

Learning objectives
Why do performance testing?
Determining what to measure
Finding and identifying bottlenecks
Using load, stress, endurance, and spike testing
Logging and parsing data
Load testing and network interception tools

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Fast is better
02 - What you should know

1. Introduction to Performance Testing

03 - What is performance testing
04 - Why do performance testing
05 - Questions that help you get started
06 - Your first performance test

2. Measurement in Performance Testing

07 - Figuring out what to measure
08 - Understanding bottlenecks
09 - Monitoring results
10 - Challenge - Find the bottleneck
11 - Solution - Find the bottleneck

3. Types of Performance Testing

12 - Load testing
13 - Stress testing
14 - Endurance testing
15 - Spike testing
16 - Scalability testing

4. Reporting Performance Testing

17 - Just a little bit about statistics
18 - Charting and plotting
19 - Logging and parsing data
20 - Challenge - Create a performance test
21 - Solution - Create a performance test

5. Resources and Tools

22 - Single user tools
23 - Load testing tools
24 - Network interception tools

Conclusion

25 - Next steps

Performance Testing Foundations

Authors

Dave Westerveld