Performance Testing Load Runner

Trainer's Profile :

Performance Testing using load runner Training is delivered by a real time software professional having more than 10 Years of experience in Multi National Companies. The trainer has also been onsite and in the Ireland for 2 years.

Training Approach :

• The Trainer explains the concept from the basics.
• After ensuring that every trainee has well understood the concept, the trainer will move on to explaining how to apply the same concept to a realtime project.
• The trainer will then discuss all the possible interview questions related to the concept in general as well as relating to a real time project.

Performance Testing: Load runner CONTENTS

Performance Testing Basics

• 1. Performance Testing Overview
• 2. Why manual testing is problematic?
• 3. Performance testing life process
• 4. Architecture/Performance Concepts/Methodology/Process
• 5. Performance testing types
• 6. Performance Testing Vs Performance Engineering
• 7. Types of performance testing tools.

Load Runner Introduction

• 1. Load Runner Installation and Licensing policy discussion
• 2. Components in Load Runner
• 3. Load Runner architecture
• 4. Introduction to Vugen
• 5. New Script creation using single and multi-Protocols

VUGEN

• 1. Introduction to VUSER Concept
• 2. Definition of Vuser
• 3. Why VUGEN is Used
• 4. Understanding VUGEN Environment Options

Recording and Replay in Vugen

• 1. Choosing a protocol /Protocol Advisor
• 2. Default Actions
• 3. Tree/ Script and log runtime views
• 4. Output Window -Replay Log, Recording Log Generation Log, Correlation Results, Run-time data
• 5. Understanding first recorded script – functions Saving Script Script Folder Structure
• 6. Begin Recording on your application
• 7. Ending and Saving a recording session

Recording Options

• 1. Recording Options and Levels
• 2. HTML Mode and use
• 3. URL Mode and use
• 4. Regenerate Script feature
• 5. GUI Mode Scripting Options

Run time settings

• 1. Detailed Run time settings
• 2. Run Logic Blocks and Iterations
• 3. Think time, Pacing
• 4. Debugging options
• 5. Multithreading options

Introduction to VUGEN parameters

• 1. Definition of parameter
• 2. Why parameterization is required
• 3. Parameters Limitations
• 4. Creating Parameters
• 5. Types of parameters
• 6. Using Existing Parameters
• 7. Using Parameter List
• 8. Parameterization options

Correlations

• 1. Introduction to correlations
• 2. Type of correlations
• 3. Auto Correlation
• 4. Wdiff Utility
• 5. Manual Correlation

Parameterization

• 1. Concept of parameter
• 2. Creating data files
• 3. Properties of file type parameters
• 4. properties of table type parameters
• 5. Data Assignment methods

Validation Check points

• 1. Content checks
• 2. Text checks
• 3. Image Checks

LRFunctions

• 1. lr_output_message
• 2. lr_error_message
• 3. lr_eval_string
• 4. lr_save_string
• 5. strcpy
• 6. sprint
• 7. atoi()
• 8. itoa()
• 9. lr_eval_string()
• 10. lr_save_string()
• 11. lr_save_int()

Controller

• 1. Introduction to controller
• 2. Designing a scenario
• 3. Scenario Types
• 4. Manual Scenario
• 5. Goal Oriented scenario
• 6. Scheduler by Scenario/Group
• 7. Introduction to Load generator
• 8. Scheduling Scenarios
• 9. IP Spoofing concept
• 10. Design Workload model concept
• 11. Rendezvous Point and policy details

Configuring LoadRunner Monitors

• 1. Commonly used LoadRunner monitors
• 2. Choosing measures
• 3. Matching measures to performance testing goals
• 4. Metrics adding
• 5. Client side measurements
• 6. Server side measurements

Introduction to Analysis

• Summary Report
  • 1. Configuring Analysis Session
  • 2. SLA Report SLA Configuration from Analysis
  • 3. Add Graphs Delete Graphs Rename Graphs Duplicate Graphs
  • 4. Filter Condition, Group by Drill Down on specefic measurement
  • 5. Set Grunalarity
  • 6. Root Cause Analysis with LoadRunner Analysis
  • 7. 90th Percentile
  • 8. Report Template Design
  • 9. ServerSide Analysis
  • 10. Bottlenecks

Performance Bottleneck Analysis

• 1. Graphs Anlaysis
• 2. Bottleneck types
• 3. Typical Parameters monitored for Bottleneck analysis
• 4. Bottleneck Analysis
• 5. Performance Monitoring and Tuning

Reporting

• 1. HTML reports
• 2. MS Word reports
• 3. Third party reports

Advanced Monitoring Tools

• 1. Perfmon
• 2. Performance center
• 3. HPD
• 4. Dynatrace
• 5. NewRelic Monitoring tool
• 6. Jconsole
• 7. JProfiler