Performance testing requires knowledge of systems architecture, techniques to simulate the load equivalent of sometimes millions of transactions per day, and tools to monitor/report runtime statistics. With the evolution from desktop to web and now the cloud, performance testing involves an unparalleled combination of different workloads and technologies. There is no one tool available—either commercial or open source—that meets all performance testing needs. Some tools act as load generators; others only monitor system resources; and many only operate for specific applications or environments. Prashant Suri shares the essential components you need for a comprehensive performance test framework and explores why each component is required for a holistic test. Learn how to develop your custom framework―starting with parsing test scripts in a predefined format, iterating over test data, employing distributed load generators, and integrating test monitors into the framework. Discover how building your own framework gives you flexibility to challenge multiple performance problems—and save thousands of dollars along the way.
Key Concepts:
The structure of a Test Framework, its components, and the process to create one will be presented. A Test Framework provides a means to automate tests fast and guarantee their extended existence. It makes the automation process straightforward and systematic, simplifies the error debugging procedures, makes the testware tolerant to all kinds of object changes and reliable in an unstable test environment. The presentation is not an illustration of a specific test framework implementation, but rather a description of the features that should be mandatory attributes of any test framework.
Learning Objectives:
How to present the testware internally as a hierarchy of test sets (structural level), use cases (functional - scenario level), test cases (the scenario steps with verification), test actions (the interface "action" words). How to present the testware externally as a set of configuration files, scripts, libraries.How to separate the business action words from the interface action words and the respective drivers.How to create debug logs that allow to identify the source of a failure in minutes.
Deployment automation framework with seleniumWenhua Wang
In my slides, I presented my experience in setting up a deployment automation framework with selenium.
The deployment automation framework dramatically dramatically reduced my deployment workload.
I hope my deployment automation setup experience help you in your own/customized automation framework setup with selenium and other open source tools.
Key Concepts:
The structure of a Test Framework, its components, and the process to create one will be presented. A Test Framework provides a means to automate tests fast and guarantee their extended existence. It makes the automation process straightforward and systematic, simplifies the error debugging procedures, makes the testware tolerant to all kinds of object changes and reliable in an unstable test environment. The presentation is not an illustration of a specific test framework implementation, but rather a description of the features that should be mandatory attributes of any test framework.
Learning Objectives:
How to present the testware internally as a hierarchy of test sets (structural level), use cases (functional - scenario level), test cases (the scenario steps with verification), test actions (the interface "action" words). How to present the testware externally as a set of configuration files, scripts, libraries.How to separate the business action words from the interface action words and the respective drivers.How to create debug logs that allow to identify the source of a failure in minutes.
Deployment automation framework with seleniumWenhua Wang
In my slides, I presented my experience in setting up a deployment automation framework with selenium.
The deployment automation framework dramatically dramatically reduced my deployment workload.
I hope my deployment automation setup experience help you in your own/customized automation framework setup with selenium and other open source tools.
Designing a Test Automation Framework By Quontra solutionsQUONTRASOLUTIONS
Quontra Solutions provides Selenium Testing online training by Real time IT experts. Selenium is having good demand in the market. Our Selenium online training Instructors are very much experienced and highly qualified and dedicated.
Our Selenium online training program is job oriented. After completion of Selenium training with us you should be able to work on any kind of project. After completion of Selenium online training our dedicated team will be supporting you.
Get 10 % OFF when you register for this program.
Please call us for demo on Selenium. Quontra Solutions is the best Selenium online training Institute in United States.
Highlights in our training:
* Very in depth course material with real time scenarios.
* We are providing class with highly qualified trainer.
* We will provide class and demo session at student flexible timings.
* In training case studies and real time scenarios covered.
* Each topic covers real time solutions.
* We will give every recorded session for play later.
* We are giving placement support by multiple consultancies in USA, UK etc.
* We will give full support while attending the interviews and contact us after completion of the course.
Pre-requisites:
• Manual Testing Skills
• Basic Programming Skills, OOPS Concepts
• Knowledge on Test Automation Principles and practices
Web and load testing with Visual Studio 2010 UltimateAbhimanyu Singhal
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A method of communicating between two devices
A software function provided at a network address over the web with the service always on
It has an interface described in a machine-processable format
http://www.qualitestgroup.com/
API Testing - The power of libraries (chai, cheerio.js ,lodash and moment.js)AnuradhaRaman5
I presented this topic at "The Test Tribe Community" meet up on 27/11/2021 with a live demo.
This presentation will be a good starting point if you need to start writing simple and meaningful tests in Postman.
This talk is a brief overview of how we deal with UI test architecture on our project. Complex backend, SPA as a frontend, 20+ different brands and 100+ features for each, more and more code.
We will discuss:
– fakes and test doubles, approaches how to build and maintain them;
– development patterns, which help you to make your architecture more simple, stable and readable;
– tips and tricks – how to make your life with UI tests easier.
Migrating Traditional Apps from On-Premises to the Hybrid CloudRackspace
Re-architecting legacy apps for the public cloud is very resource intensive. However, migrating apps to a hosted hybrid cloud that’s composed of bare-metal servers, VMware® virtualization, EMC® storage and public cloud offers cloud-bursting benefits, but with less risk and cost. Check out our presentation and learn the five-step path to hybrid cloud.
As the world of system and application deployment continues to change, the sys admin and security community needs to change with it. With agile development, continuous deployment, the pace of change in IT has only increased. Add in Dev/Ops and the traditional sys admin and security processes just don’t work. How can you rapidly deliver servers and applications while making sure they are built reliably and securely. Rackspace has been developing a tool to help them design, deploy and security assess complex configurations for customers called Checkmate. This talk will cover the concepts behind and the architecture of Checkmate and how it helps minimize the time to deploy systems and verify they have been created to spec and in a secure state. A discussion of how Checkmate has inspired the concept of Test Driven Security based on the Test Driven Development model familiar to the development world.
Designing a Test Automation Framework By Quontra solutionsQUONTRASOLUTIONS
Quontra Solutions provides Selenium Testing online training by Real time IT experts. Selenium is having good demand in the market. Our Selenium online training Instructors are very much experienced and highly qualified and dedicated.
Our Selenium online training program is job oriented. After completion of Selenium training with us you should be able to work on any kind of project. After completion of Selenium online training our dedicated team will be supporting you.
Get 10 % OFF when you register for this program.
Please call us for demo on Selenium. Quontra Solutions is the best Selenium online training Institute in United States.
Highlights in our training:
* Very in depth course material with real time scenarios.
* We are providing class with highly qualified trainer.
* We will provide class and demo session at student flexible timings.
* In training case studies and real time scenarios covered.
* Each topic covers real time solutions.
* We will give every recorded session for play later.
* We are giving placement support by multiple consultancies in USA, UK etc.
* We will give full support while attending the interviews and contact us after completion of the course.
Pre-requisites:
• Manual Testing Skills
• Basic Programming Skills, OOPS Concepts
• Knowledge on Test Automation Principles and practices
Web and load testing with Visual Studio 2010 UltimateAbhimanyu Singhal
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate also gives you access to advanced web and load testing features that help you ensure that whatever application you are building it is ready for the most demanding uses. The Web and Load testing capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate help you ensure that whatever application you are building it is ready for whatever scenarios your organization can envisage taking you one step closer to knowing your application is ready for prime time.
A method of communicating between two devices
A software function provided at a network address over the web with the service always on
It has an interface described in a machine-processable format
http://www.qualitestgroup.com/
API Testing - The power of libraries (chai, cheerio.js ,lodash and moment.js)AnuradhaRaman5
I presented this topic at "The Test Tribe Community" meet up on 27/11/2021 with a live demo.
This presentation will be a good starting point if you need to start writing simple and meaningful tests in Postman.
This talk is a brief overview of how we deal with UI test architecture on our project. Complex backend, SPA as a frontend, 20+ different brands and 100+ features for each, more and more code.
We will discuss:
– fakes and test doubles, approaches how to build and maintain them;
– development patterns, which help you to make your architecture more simple, stable and readable;
– tips and tricks – how to make your life with UI tests easier.
Migrating Traditional Apps from On-Premises to the Hybrid CloudRackspace
Re-architecting legacy apps for the public cloud is very resource intensive. However, migrating apps to a hosted hybrid cloud that’s composed of bare-metal servers, VMware® virtualization, EMC® storage and public cloud offers cloud-bursting benefits, but with less risk and cost. Check out our presentation and learn the five-step path to hybrid cloud.
As the world of system and application deployment continues to change, the sys admin and security community needs to change with it. With agile development, continuous deployment, the pace of change in IT has only increased. Add in Dev/Ops and the traditional sys admin and security processes just don’t work. How can you rapidly deliver servers and applications while making sure they are built reliably and securely. Rackspace has been developing a tool to help them design, deploy and security assess complex configurations for customers called Checkmate. This talk will cover the concepts behind and the architecture of Checkmate and how it helps minimize the time to deploy systems and verify they have been created to spec and in a secure state. A discussion of how Checkmate has inspired the concept of Test Driven Security based on the Test Driven Development model familiar to the development world.
Traditional application security cannot keep pace with pace of change in applicaiton development - that model is dead. Move beyond the 5 stages of grief and get your agile security on. This talk covers practices that helped the product security team at Rackspace keep up with the rate of change facing modern day application security teams.
Dickey's Barbecue Pit Heats Up Analytics with Amazon Web ServicesPrecisely
Heading to the cloud for Big Data analytics? Or, want to take your current projects to the next level?
When Dickey's Barbecue Pit needed an easy and cost-effective way to quickly understand — and act upon — rapidly growing business data across more than 550 stores, they turned to an advanced analytics solution hosted on Amazon Web Services. The results have been game-changing — driving insights to make real-time decisions on everything from staffing to inventory to marketing.
In this webcast, CIO Laura Rea Dickey presents a first-hand account of the company's journey to the cloud, including:
The business challenges that led to the new solution
How they picked the right platform and partner
Their success plan and results
And lessons learned along the way!
Virtualization simply means maximizing the value of your IT resources - including hardware, software applications and infrastructure - by decoupling them from physical assets and turning them into a "pool" of resources that can be called upon and used on an on demand basis.
Transform Software Testing and Quality with the Neotys-Inflectra PlatformInflectra
On July 17, 2019 Inflectra and Neotys hosted a joint webinar called: Transform Software Testing & Quality with the Neotys-Inflectra Platform. The webinar demonstrated the powerful capabilities of this combined QA and performance testing platform vis-a-vis legacy tools.
The is the presentation used in this webinar.
The evolution of cloud requires not only virtualised server resources but also on demand, utility consumption of physical hardware resources delivered in real time.
Tearing Down Silos and Building Your Enterprise Dev/Ops EngineRackspace
Miss the latest installment of the Enterprise Cloud Forum? Not to worry here is a copy of the slides from Rackspace Sr. IT Strategist Brian Jawalka and Rackspace VP of Software Application Development Krishna Prasad with guest host Mark Majewski – Cloud Solution Architect discussed how enterprises need to approach Dev/Ops to ensure cloud adoption success.
Cloud Done Right - PaaS is the Remedy to VM HangoverMohamad Afshar
Virtualized hardware is all the rage in enterprise IT. However, is a purely virtualization-focused, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) approach really the right one for enterprises and government? What’s becoming clear is that virtualization is but one piece of a much bigger strategy for fast, self-service deployment and ultra-efficient operations, referred to as “platform as a service” (PaaS). PaaS leverages a wider set of middleware capabilities to enable application deployment in minutes rather than days and reduces operational costs by up to 90%. This general session will compare and contrast the IaaS and PaaS approaches, discussing architectural and operational considerations for PaaS using examples of best practices. It's a must-attend session for anyone considering building a private cloud.
AWS Summit 2013 | India - Running High Churn Development & Test Environments,...Amazon Web Services
The flexible and pay-as-you-go nature of AWS means that developers can spin up compute resources quickly and shut them down when not required. Learn about rapid deployment of applications to AWS as part of your development and testing cycle. Development and testing are a resource hungry function that requires numerous environments and the AWS Cloud allows you create these environments quickly. Hear about real-world examples of our existing customers that have benefited from using AWS for their development and testing.
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We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered Quality
Build Your Custom Performance Testing Framework
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Performance Testing
10/16/2014 1:30:00 PM
Build Your Custom Performance
Testing Framework
Presented by:
Prashant Suri
Rackspace
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2. Prashant Suri
Rackspace
Prashant Suri is a senior member of the performance engineering team at
Rackspace, the open cloud company. In his role, he helps performance test and
benchmark Rackspace's cloud products and applications, writing his own test
frameworks to help. In his early years, Prashant developed a number of products
on Java/J2EE stack but was fascinated by the vastness of performance
engineering. He enjoys improving products’ scaling and robustness. Through the
years, he has helped products, developed and used by Fortune 500, scale better.
A presenter at international testing conferences, Prashant can be reached at
prashant.suri@rackspace.com.
3. Build your custom Performance
Testing Framework
Prashant Suri
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Agenda
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• Evolution of the web and growing complexity of products.
• Essentials of performance engineering.
• Popular performance test tools.
• Holistic performance test framework.
• Components of a performance test framework.
• Deep dive on an example: performance testing at RAX
• Advantages of building your own framework.
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Evolution of the Web
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Essentials of Performance Engineering
• Performance objectives – Latency, Throughput, Utilization,
Workload.
• Performance Modeling – Scenarios, Objectives,
Requirements, Budgets, Metrics.
• Architecture and Design Guidelines – Principles, Practices
and Patterns
• Performance and Scalability Frame – Coupling and
cohesion, Communication, Concurrency, Resource
Management, Caching, State Management, Data
Structures/Algorithms.
• Measurement, Tuning and Analysis.
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Popular Performance Test Tools
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There’s No Silver Bullet
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• Performance testing is more than simulating load.
• Accurate and intricate work load models need to be
implemented.
• Traffic to be simulated from world geographies.
• Testing in service oriented architectures comes with its own
challenges.
• Reporting and pattern analysis is key for successful
performance engineering.
• Performance monitors and profiling equally important.
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Holistic Performance Test Framework
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Components of the framework
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Controller Agents
Database & Graphing
Engine
SimulatingLoads
• Brain behind the complete
orchestration. Parses and
executes the data script.
• Picks up threads from queues,
and hit application under test.
• Repository for metrics of
response times, throughputs,
errors etc.
• Can scale dynamically at run
time, to add load generation
capacity.
• Maintains the test details,
workload model details and
objectives of any
performance test.
Capable of distributing load from
different data centers.
• Distributed across geographies to
simulate identical world traffic.
• Optimal database tuning for
handling 1000+ transactions
per second test.
Monitoringand
Debugging
Could be integrated to application
monitors and profilers.
• Feeds all metrics data into the
Database.
• Correlates and consolidates
all test data.
Updated information on runtime
activity from database is read and
published.
• Logging for every granular
transaction with application under
test.
• Historical comparisons and
pattern analysis.
Could be leveraged for analysis
and data based decision making.
• Distributed agents through way of
logging are consolidated for
complete test.
• Profiling and application
under test data, for analyzing
deviation and anomalies.
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Case Study – Capabilities galore!
Single F/W to simulate on all Products
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Sample Script – Design workload models!
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Execution – Distribute across Agents
through a queue
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Run time statistics of Performance Test
