In this blog post, I will provide performance testing study materials, interesting links, useful guides, whitepapers, performance testing tools, performance testing tips etc. Please bookmark this link. Happy studying!
- Wikipedia about Performance Testing
- Load Testing Terminology
- Introduction to Performance Testing; The Who, What, Where, When and Why
- Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices Performance Testing Guidance
- Part 1: Assess the problem space Part 2: Build out the test assets Part 3: Provide information
- Load Testing: Points to Ponder
- Performance Testing Professional
- Wilson Mar’s performance testing notes
- Performance Testing : KnowledgeBase
- Jason Harris’ “Captain LoadTest” Blog
- Corey Goldberg’s Blog
- Performance Engineering News, Avinash Mangipudi’s blog
- Shanti Subramanyam’s blog
- Keynote Resource Library
- Gomez whitepapers
- Performance Testing
- Testing Performance
- The Top 13 Mistakes in Load Testing Applications
- Performance Testing Case Study, Part 1: Developing the Test Strategy
- Getting Things Done: Practical Web/e-Commerce Application Stress Testing
- Load Testing, Benchmarking, and Application Performance Management for the Web
- Load Testing of Web Sites
- High Performance Testing
- Tester PI: Performance Investigator
- Critical Success Factors for Load Test Projects
- Tuning Your Stress Test Harness
- Tales from the Lab: Best Practices in Application Performance Testing
- Real-World Load Testing Tips to Avoid Bottlenecks When Your Web App Goes Live
- Template: Load Test Plan
- Performance testing Java servlet-based Web applications: A guide for software test engineers
- Analyzing Performance-Testing Results to Correlate Performance Plateaus and Stress Areas
- Performance Requirements
- Performance Design
- load testing tool
- Bottlenecks Exposed
- How to Identify the Usual Performance Suspects
- Diagnosing Symptoms of Poor System Performance
- Rapid Bottleneck Identification
Load Testing Tools
- Load Testing Tools by Wilson Mar
- QAGuild Testing Tools Directory
- Software Tetsing Tool Finder by Cordell Vail
- QA Testing Tools
- HP LoadRunner
- HP LoadRunner and Performance Center Blog
- LoadRunner Tutorial
- Wilson Mar’s LoadRunner notes
- Wilson Mar’s scripting notes
- Google Group
- Yahoo Group
- Learn LoadRunner blog
- Dmitry Motevich’s blog
- SAP Cheat Sheet for Performance Testers
- Witepapers from Northway Solutions
- Using LoadRunner with Oracle Applications Release 12
- Loadrunner TruClient – limitations
- Using LoadRunner for Unsupported or Difficult to Parameterize Protocols
- IBM Rational Performance Tester
- Rational Performance Tester
- Rational Performance Tester 8.2.1 manuals
- Quality management and testing solutions from Rational
- Using Rational Performance Tester Version 7
- “User Experience, not Metrics” and “Beyond Performance Testing”
- Custom Load Generation with Rational TestManager
- Using a LoadRunner workload as a model for a Rational workload
- IBM Rational Performance Tester on Windows 2000 and Linux: A scalability comparison
- Use IBM Rational Testing Tools for Effective Performance Monitoring of Apache Web Servers
- An Experience Using Rational PerformanceTester to Benchmark Oracle EnterpriseOne
- Michael Kelly’s writing
- RTTS Whitepapers and Presentations
- Oracle Application Testing Suite
- Empirix white papers
- Alex Amat’s blog
- Microsoft Visual Studio Stress and Performance Test Solution
- Visual Studio Web Performance and Load Testing
- Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices Performance Testing Guidance
- SOASTA CloudTest
- CloudTest Lite, free downloadable edition
- SOASTA blog
- Fred Beringer’s blog
- Facilita’s Forecast
- LoadStorm
- LoadStorm performance tetsing blog Neotys blog
- SandStorm
- SandStorm whitepapers
- SmartBear LoadComplete
- Software Quality Matters blog
- RadView WebLOAD
- WAPT
- WAPT 4.0: Web Site Load, Stress and Performance Testing
- eValid
- PushToTest TestMaker
- http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html
- http://www.opensourcetesting.org/performance.php
- Apache JMeter
- JMeter Links
- JMeter Plugins at Google Code
- LoadRunner to JMeter – A successful transition
- BlazeMeter
- OpenSTA
- QTest
- Comparison of LoadRunner with OpenSTA
- Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform Project p-unit
- Ixia products.
SwiftTest
BreakingPoint - An Overview of Load Test Tools
- Load Test Tools Evaluation
- Stress, Load, Volume, Performance, Benchmark and Base Line Testing Tool Evaluation and Comparison
Load Testing and Performance Monitoring as Services
- Gomez
- Keynote
- Neustar Webmetrics
- NCC Group (former Site Confidence)
- Catchpoint
- Yottaa
- BlazeMeter,
- Shunra Software
- iTrinegy (former Itheon)
- The TesLA (Test Lab Automation) Alliance
- Network Test Automation Forum (NTAF)
- Wikipedia about Benchmarking
- Transaction Processing Performance Council
- Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
- The Business Applications Performance Council (BAPCo)
- Ideas International Benchmark Gateway
- IDC Qualified Performance Indicator (QPI)
- The Performance Database Server (PDS)
- Oracle and Sun Benchmarks
- SAP Standard Application Benchmarks
- Intel Performance
- AMD Opteron Processor-based Server Benchmarks
- Microsoft SQL Server Benchmarks
- Wilson Mar about Multi-Tier Reference Apps for Benchmarking
- 50 TB Data Warehouse Benchmark on IBM System z
- AC&NC collection of I/O benchmark programs for UNIX & Windows
- Iperf
- VMware VMmark
- Benchmarking Directory
- Compiler Connection’s benchmark resource page
- QPI (Qualified Performance Indicator)
- The Gartner Relative Performance Estimate (RPE2)
- RPE2 white paper
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wow..lots of information here ….Thanks Naveen
Thanks Mahesh! Please subscribe to my newsletter and visit my other blog http://www.testifications.com and http://www.qajobopenings.com
Hello Naveen,
Have you done anything on the performance Testing Risk Analysis guidelines or templates to evaluate whether the application to performance tested. Can you share your wisdom.