The Performance Testing Handbook
The Performance Testing Handbook
A practical guide
About the Book
Are you struggling with Performance Testing? , this book may be for you.
This book is for software testing engineers who are discovering performance testing for the first time, it doesn’t matter if you are an experienced tester or a newbie this book is for you.
Addresses an urgent need in the marketplace for reference material on this subject, and tries to simplify the content to reach the majority of people that may need it.
Focusing only on the concepts and methodologies of the Performance Testing side from the tool that you may use whether it is JMeter, LoadRunner, or Gatling each tool has its own learning curve.
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Table of Contents
Foreward by Beth Marshall
Preface
What I can promise you!
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Faster Websites Make More Money
What is performance testing
Performance testing vs performance engineering
Test automation vs performance testing
We are a team, not enemies
Stakeholders
Performance tester roles and Responsibilities
Performance testing in CI/CD World
Chapter 2 - Things that you need to know
Response time
Hits per second
Throughput
Latency
Error rate
Standard deviation
Service level agreement (SLA)
Load generators
Think Time
Load balancing
User session
Caching
Cookies
Chapter 3 - Performance Testing Types
Load Testing
Stress Testing
Spike Testing
Endurance Testing (aka Soak Testing)
Volume Testing
High Availability Testing
Chapter 4 - Performance Testing Lifecycle
1: Identifying and analyzing Non-functional requirements
2: Test Strategy Formation
3: Design the Test
4: Execution of Performance Test
5: Test Results Analysis
6: Feedbacks and corrections
Chapter 5 - Performance Tuning
Chapter 6 - Performance Testing Challenges
1: Selection of suitable performance testing tools
2: Lack of proper test strategy & test coverage
3: Time and budget constraints
4: Lack of knowledge about the need for performance tests
5: Improper analysis of performance test outcomes
6: Difficulty in conducting tests in a production environment
Chapter 7 - Conclusion
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