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

Other Useful Links about Performance Testing/Engineering

Sites with more valuable information about Performance Testing / Engineering :

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2005/09/performance_testing.html

http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=edetail&ObjectType=ART&ObjectId=6221

http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/PerformanceWiki.PerTestingHowToModelUserExperience

http://cs.gmu.edu/faculty/menasce.html

http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=java&seqNum=267&rl=1

http://www.teamapproach.ca/trouble/MemoryCounters.htm

http://www.tkn.tu-berlin.de/~awillig/user_includes/pet_ss2005/pet_ss2005.html

http://www.perfeng.com/

http://www.wilsonmar.com/perftune.htm

http://loadtest.com.au/types_of_tests.htm

http://www.new-destiny.co.uk/andrew/past_work/queueing_theory/

http://www.pea.co.in/resources.htm

Learn about Performance Testing from Scott barber's Site

Who said Performance testing is just simply simulating more number of users to test the system performance.......

There are lots more than that......Words cant explain the worth of information available in Scott Barber's site.

http://www.perftestplus.com/pubs.htm

Starting from how to plan for a Performance Test till how to create the Performance Test Report are available in a very easy & understandable way. Its amazing.

Thanks to Scott barber for sharing the information with us.