Tutorials, articles, tools and resources on how to perform load testing in software testing.
This blog post discusses the load testing considered as a science and an art. It provides some interesting hints gathered from experience, such what it defines a golden rule of load testing “By the time the system is mature and stable enough to test, it’s time to deliver already”. It discusses also the fact that load tests are static, but the reality is not. Finally, how close you try to be to reality when you perform load testing, you will certainly not be able to replicate it completely.
This blog post provides guidelines for scalability testing. It defines the difference between load, performance and scalability testing. A well-designed workload is the first requirement for any performance testing is a well-designed workload. The post provides hints how to to plan, run and analyze scalability tests.
Continuous delivery is a software development strategy that optimizes the delivery process to get software delivered as quickly as possible. This blog by Eli Weinstock-Herman explains how to integrate the load testing stage in a continuous delivery process. It presents a detail step-by-step process on how to incorporate the load testing scripts into the Jenkins open source continuous integration tool as a new build step in the delivery pipeline. This step will run the load test and capture the results.
Load testing is almost always conducted to address one or more risks related to expense, opportunity costs, continuity, and/or corporate reputation. In two blog posts, Tarun Arora discusses the topic. In part 1, he explains why Performance Testing the application is important, presents the test tools available in Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 and various test rig topologies. In part 2, he analyzes the details of web performance and load tests as well as why it’s important to follow a goal based pattern while performance testing your application.
This short tutorial presents a basic introduction to HP LoadRunner automated load testing tool. You will learn how to generate scripts with the Virtual User Generator, design and run a load test in the Controller and analyze the test results.
This article discusses how to build a portfolio of scenarios for load testing automation. You have rarely only a single scenario to test, so you have to decide which scenarios to include in your test plans. Criticality, frequency, difficulty and verifiability are the four key factors that should be considered to determine the scenarios to automate.
This video presents HP LoadRunner and explains how the individual components of HP LoadRunner and HP Diagnostics are installed.
