Mobile Performance Testing

Mobile Performance Testing which is new in the market and at its peak. Very few performance testers are aware of the strategy to conduct perfect performance testing for mobile. Bob Reselman published an informative article and described 7 important points on the same. Read it and grab the knowledge.

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Mobile Performance Testing Tool:

• NeoLoad
• ExperiTest
• WebLoad

LoadRunner vs NeoLoad vs JMeter

Many performance testing tools are available in the market. Sometimes, it is difficult to choose which performance testing tool is best for the project and will meet all the requirements. A detailed comparison of Micro Focus LoadRunner, NeoLoad and Apache JMeter has given in this post:

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Related Topic: Learn Micro Focus LoadRunner, Learn Apache JMeter

Server Timing

Charles Vazac has described the server timing in a detailed manner in his article. He has split the response time and provided the information about each stage. I found this article very useful for Performance Engineer. This is an informative article on Server Timing and how to use it in performance testing. Read the article by clicking below link:

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A performance improvement case study

This article is more relevant to Performance Engineering and use of Google Lighthouse. A practical case how Telus Digital improve the performance of the application?

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Additional Details: In the open-source tool category Lighthouse is also included. Basically, it is a Google tool which checks the web-quality of a page and suggests to improve the performance.

Performance Testing Checklist

Performance Testing is a kind of art. It needs clear designing, logical scripting, meaningful result analysis and at last a tuned application which every client wants. Since many things, a performance tester needs to align during PT windows so there must be a check-list which can give a clear idea what needs to be done, what is completed and what is pending; without missing any important task. Vitaly Friedman has shared a front-end application performance testing checklist which will help you out to keep eyes on the completed and open tasks. 

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You can download the checklist (in PDF format): 

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Capacity planning in Performance Testing

Capacity planning in Performance Testing is a major topic which needs to be understood deeply. More or less capacity planning comes under Solution Architecture and Performance Engineering domain. A performance engineer involvement at the early stage can help to build a tuned application along with architect. Some basic rules are very well captured by Rich Schiesser in his post on Capacity Planning. You can treat those steps as a Mantra of capacity planning.    

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Capacity Planning: To structure the capacity of the hardware and software of the applications, so that they can handle the expected load.  

Performance Testing Books

Another weekend is on our plate!

Let's fill this weekend with some bookish knowledge. I have listed out some good books for you which you can buy (or read free*) if you are a book lover!

1. Software Performance and Scalability: A Quantitative Approach (Quantitative Software Engineering Series)

2. Performance Engineering of Software Systems (The Sei Series in Software Engineering)

3. Testing the Performance of Complex System Simulations 

4. Performance Testing with JMeter 3 - Third Edition 

5. Excellence in Performance Testing and Engineering Handy Book (Read for Free) 

6. Performance Testing Interview Questions & Answers: Most Frequently Asked Questions (Read for Free) 

7. Pro Apache JMeter: Web Application Performance Testing 

8. HP LoadRunner Second Edition 

9. HP LoadRunner: Standard Requirements