Loar Runner

 Load Runner

Introduction to Performance Testing

What is Performance Testing ?

Benefits of Performance Testing

Performance Testing phases / Life Cycle

Types of Performance Testing (Load, Stress, Volume, Endurance, Baseline, Benchmark etc)

Introduction about various Performances

Testing tools and scripting language info

Indentifying the business scenarios for Performance Testing

Think time, rendezvous point, IP Spoofing, Denial of Services Attack

Workload Characterization

Introduction to Load Runner

Introduction about the LoadRunner with various versions

Components of LoadRunner and purpose of each component

Load Generators, Calculating the # of LGs for a load test

Virtual User generator

A Small introduction about the C language (Variable, functions, loops)

Recording a Script

Recording Log, Generating Log, Replay Log and Correlation results log

Regenerate Script, recording options

Best Practice for recording a script

Run time settings

Correlation

Parameterization

Page Validations

Transaction Timers

Think times

Randomizing the script

Frequency used C functions

Debug a script

LR Variables Vs C Variables custom Requests

Tips for advances scripting

Controller

Manual Scenario Vs Goal oriented scenario

Schedule by group Vs Schedule by Scenario

Adding Load Generators and verifying the connectivity (Performance test environment setup)

Run Time settings

Executing the tests

Configuring the Rendezvous, IP Spoofing etc

Monitoring servers through controller

Windows resources, UNIX resources, other servers

Auto collection of results, issues with auto collection, sampling intervals

Configuring Diagnostics

Analysis

Adding graphs

Merging graphs

Web Page

Diagnostics

Advanced Filters/ Drill down

Raw data/ Graph data

How to start Analysis (Analysis approach using Client side and server side measurement)

Correlate the graphs/results and analyzing the results (Response Time vs HPS Vs throughput Vs TPS)

Most commonly seen issues / errors and possible reasons

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