Belgium Testing Days 2016

The most effective performance engineers are required to know not only how to design and conduct performance testing, but they also must master the rationales behind why we employ performance testing and what value is derived from the practices.  This course provides an introduction to the core concepts involved in designing, developing and implementing performance testing.  Learn why certain deliverables should come out of a performance test and how they are made valuable to others in the organization.  Learn why certain kinds of performance tests are effective and how to setup and configure tools to conduct different types of tests.  Using a combination of real-world stories, interactive group analysis and hands-on exercises, you will be challenged to understand the same kinds of problems, decisions, and performance experiences most often found in your own work as a performance tester.  The class is divided equally between theoretical learning through a series of discussion-based exercises and also hands-on work with the basic tools required to build performance testing skills.  At the end of the class, you will have developed a practical strategy for performance testing and the skills to get started implementing a performance test.  It’s not enough to know how to test, you should know why you test.

Workshop Takeaways:

• Concepts around the value of performance testing: the objectives; the outcomes and the benefits


• Concepts around the performance testing process: design; planning; preparation; execution and reporting


• Skills to design a performance test: objectives, workloads, automation, monitoring and reports


• Skills to construct different performance test types: why they are different and how to construct them


• Experience in performance testing: running a test; monitoring the system and producing results

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The most effective performance engineers are required to know not only how to design and conduct performance testing, but they also must master the rationales behind why we employ performance testing and what value is derived from the practices.  This course provides an introduction to the core concepts involved in designing, developing and implementing performance testing.  Learn why certain deliverables should come out of a performance test and how they are made valuable to others in the organization.  Learn why certain kinds of performance tests are effective and how to setup and configure tools to conduct different types of tests.  Using a combination of real-world stories, interactive group analysis and hands-on exercises, you will be challenged to understand the same kinds of problems, decisions, and performance experiences most often found in your own work as a performance tester.  The class is divided equally between theoretical learning through a series of discussion-based exercises and also hands-on work with the basic tools required to build performance testing skills.  At the end of the class, you will have developed a practical strategy for performance testing and the skills to get started implementing a performance test.  It’s not enough to know how to test, you should know why you test.

Workshop Takeaways:

• Concepts around the value of performance testing: the objectives; the outcomes and the benefits


• Concepts around the performance testing process: design; planning; preparation; execution and reporting


• Skills to design a performance test: objectives, workloads, automation, monitoring and reports


• Skills to construct different performance test types: why they are different and how to construct them


• Experience in performance testing: running a test; monitoring the system and producing results

Have you ever been stumped by a performance issue? And everyone is looking at you to be the genius who knows everything about performance? It’s a situation that we may find ourselves in frequently, but never get a chance to practice fully before we end up in the hot seat.

This workshop will help you to practice the insightful questioning, small-group collaboration and performance depth of knowledge required to handle performance escalations and critical situations. This entertaining and mentally frustrating session will present several “somewhat common” performance puzzlers and give attendees time to work in small groups to see if they can determine the root-cause for the performance issue.

We’ll review together the proper recommendation for a fix to the problem and what type of testing may have prevented the specific issue.

 

Workshop Takeaways:

• Practice of performance problem-solving techniques.


• Specific performance problem identification and remedy.


• Practical application of root-cause analysis skills.


• Group collaboration on performance analysis.

Have you ever been stumped by a performance issue? And everyone is looking at you to be the genius who knows everything about performance? It’s a situation that we may find ourselves in frequently, but never get a chance to practice fully before we end up in the hot seat.

This workshop will help you to practice the insightful questioning, small-group collaboration and performance depth of knowledge required to handle performance escalations and critical situations. This entertaining and mentally frustrating session will present several “somewhat common” performance puzzlers and give attendees time to work in small groups to see if they can determine the root-cause for the performance issue.

We’ll review together the proper recommendation for a fix to the problem and what type of testing may have prevented the specific issue.

 

Workshop Takeaways:

• Practice of performance problem-solving techniques.


• Specific performance problem identification and remedy.


• Practical application of root-cause analysis skills.


• Group collaboration on performance analysis.

Cloud computing is here and it’s changing the way we test software. Cloud-based testing offers lower cost, flexible, scalable, on-demand, pay-per-use infrastructure services. Tauhida Parveen describes the concept of cloud-based testing, its scope, distinct requirements, benefits, and drawbacks. She explains how cloud-based testing brings a new perspective to certain traditional testing activities, including instantly creating and dismantling testing environments, and the ability to mimic production environments early in the testing cycle.

She also talks about the cost and effort of provisioning such dynamic test environments by testers. She describes how one can engineer scalable environments to perform load, stress, and performance testing, in addition to compatibility, cross-browser, and cross- platform testing using the cloud. She also describes some of the tools and technologies (e.g., Amazon cloud services, SOA, web services, and testing-as-a-service) that are now available to aid in cloud- based testing. Take back the tips and guidance that you can share with your testing team and prepare them for the next generation of software testing.

Cloud computing is here and it’s changing the way we test software. Cloud-based testing offers lower cost, flexible, scalable, on-demand, pay-per-use infrastructure services. Tauhida Parveen describes the concept of cloud-based testing, its scope, distinct requirements, benefits, and drawbacks. She explains how cloud-based testing brings a new perspective to certain traditional testing activities, including instantly creating and dismantling testing environments, and the ability to mimic production environments early in the testing cycle. 

She also talks about the cost and effort of provisioning such dynamic test environments by testers. She describes how one can engineer scalable environments to perform load, stress, and performance testing, in addition to compatibility, cross-browser, and cross- platform testing using the cloud. She also describes some of the tools and technologies (e.g., Amazon cloud services, SOA, web services, and testing-as-a-service) that are now available to aid in cloud- based testing. Take back the tips and guidance that you can share with your testing team and prepare them for the next generation of software testing.