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Introduction to Performance Testing

  • The performance testing life cycle.
  • Interpreting performance test results.

Understanding Various Architectures/Application Models

  • 2/3 tier architecture.
  • N-tier architecture.
  • Middleware-based architecture (e.g., MQ, Webservices).

Technology Stack

  • Basic UNIX commands (grep, find, vi editor, etc.).
  • Fundamental Oracle/SQL concepts (queries, tables, triggers, etc.).
  • Core C/Java concepts.

Detailed Analysis - Monitoring Concepts/Tools

  • Hardware Monitoring (Windows - Perfmon, UNIX - nmon, vmstat).
    • Run queue (Average processor queue length).
    • Network I/O.
    • Disk I/O.
    • Memory metrics (Available, Used, Paging space, FS Cache, etc.).
    • CPU metrics (Available, virtual, online, entitled, etc.).
  • Web Server/App Server Monitoring.
    • JVM (Java heap) - heap dump analysis.
    • Connection Pool management.
    • Thread Pool management.
  • Familiarity with various monitoring tools such as CA Wily Introscope and IBM Tivoli.
  • Database Monitoring.
    • Basic query tuning.
    • SQL Trace analysis.
    • AWR or Statspack analysis.
    • Query plan examination.
  • Understanding of bandwidth and FTP.
  • Network monitoring using tools like HTTPwatch or Fiddler.

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of databases such as Oracle.
  • Familiarity with application containers like WebSphere or WebLogic.
  • Knowledge of programming languages such as Java.
  • Existing knowledge of performance testing principles.
  • Competence in SQL.
 35 Hours

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