Friday, August 10, 2007

A Book on Performance Testing for beginners....

Thanks a lot viewers. Thanks for your encouragement by your kind mails.

I am planning to publish a book on Performance Testing comprising all that i learned during the past 3 years of the experience in my career.

I started my carrer as a functional tester and pushed or pulled into Performance testing fortunately thereby i came to know about this area. Mine is a hard way and i didnt had much support in terms of helping hands to get to know about the fundamendals before i started handling the projects. Slowly i learned a lot and finally ended up in unlearning a lot because of the ignorance i had initial days.

The objective of this book is to help fellow performance testers so that they can spend their quality time in achieving great things rather than reinventing the wheel :)


"Performance Testing Handbook - A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners"


The bird's eye view of topics covered in this book includes,

1. Why Performance Testing is crucial.
2. Dynamics and myths in performance testing
3. Deriving Quantitative performance test goals
4. Common mistakes in performance testing which i learned
5. Overview of performance test tools - How to choose the best tool
6. Setting up the performance test environment
7. Comprehensive support for writting test scripts
8. Application benchamarking
9. Quick look at the Industry standard benchmarks
10. A helping in setting up the performance Test Strategy
11. Performance Test Monitoring
12. Performance Test Execution - When and how to choose various tests (Load, Stress, Volume, Soak, Endurance tests).
13.Bottlenecks identification strategy
14.Reporting - How does it matters so much
15.Road Ahead - towards mathematical modeling and queuing theory basics


8 comments:

chandru said...

There is one good book or guide on performance testing in www.codeplex.com

http://www.codeplex.com/PerfTestingGuide

This guide talks about end to end approach for implementing performance testing.

People can use this as a mentor, reference or training material.

Anonymous said...

Please let me know when your book is available.

santhoshjsh@gmail.com

Unknown said...

Hi
Wishing you all the Best for your effort in bringing out a Book on Performance Testing .
I really appreciate your effort on this and always like to look into your Blog for new information on Performance Testing .I Being into the same work really know the need for such a reference .

Please do let me know when your Book is out .

Regards
sanjay
sanjayncs@gmail.com

Vikram said...

Keep up the good work. Performance tesing is very new to India and the help that you are providing on the site is really appreciated. It surely is a blessing for any budding load testers.

Keep up the good work

Anonymous said...

Agreed with all of the above -- I wish you well with your book! You have a lot of experience to share with all of us testers.

Anonymous said...

HI I am Venkatesh
I Work as functional tester
and want to learn performance testing
will this book be usefull for a novice like me.

Aswathy said...

hi,

i am so happy to know that you are introducing a book which will be surely helpful to us

Raj Ainapur said...

Hi Ramya,
Nice to know ur getting out of box within short span of ur experience. PT area is very interesting and fortunately I got into this area of working since 7.5 years dedicated experience. But never thought of collating all experience. You are very much inspiring me in my work. Can I get ur book (pdf) please. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Bhaktaraj