http://www.wilsonmar.com/perftest.xml Notes on performance engineering for load testers and capacity managers. en-us Copyright 2006 Wilson Mar. All Rights Reserved. wilsonmar@gmail.com http://www.WilsonMar.com/perftest.htm Here are my notes on how to conduct performance testing and capacity planning. . Sections include Information Flows & Roles, Roles in a Performance Project, Performance Within Development LifeCycles, The Context of Performance (Technology Layers), Forms/Types of Performance Testing, Load Testing Products, Capacity/Performance Mgmt. Workflow Wilson Mar 2004-11-06 http://www.wilsonmar.com/qmstages.htm Quality Management is more than just testing (a Quality Control activity). This describes the difference. More sophisticated Quality Management coincides with an organization's maturity and capability. Wilson Mar 2003-10-06 http://www.LoadTestTools.com This page lists, describes, and compares software products for conducting load, stress, and performance testing. Wilson Mar 2005-12-09 http://www.wilsonmar.com/1ltdiag.htm Here is a strategy to use Mercury LoadRunner with Diagnostics, with graphic-supported explanations of the difference between diagnostics and production monitoring Business Availability products. Wilson Mar 2006-01-03 http://www.LoadRunner.Info Here are my notes on using LoadRunner for performance testing. Topics include: Installation & Configuration, Monitors, Product Versions, VuGen Recording, Controller Scenarios, Protocols, Trans. Response Times, Measurement Calcs, Measures of Variation, Analysis Module. The page features a stopwatch you can start and stop... for those times when you don't need a million-dollar piece of software. Wilson Mar 2004-11-09 http://www.vuscripting.com How to write vu C scripts used in performance tesing with LoadRunner. Wilson Mar 2007-03-14 http://www.wilsonmar.com/lr_framework.htm Here is a full-featured framework written in LoadRunner VuGen script that adds agile feature and overcomes several inconveniences and annoyances associated with large-scale performance testing of Web applications using LoadRunner. Wilson Mar 2007-03-14 http://www.wilsonmar.com/ajax_rec.htm This is a tutorial on creating a LoadRunner script for emulating use of AJAX-based web pages popular today. Wilson Mar 2007-03-14 http://www.WilsonMar.com/lrerrlist.htm Here is a totally stand-alone ASP classic script you can drop onto your IIS or PWS server to view summary and detail error messages generated by LoadRunner. The ASP application uses several advanced ASP tricks: cookies, ADO paging, etc. Wilson Mar 2004-11-09 http://www.WilsonMar.com/lr_rpt.htm This page explains the sample Summary Report generated by LoadRunner and then, more importantly, explain how to make use of them to make decisions. Wilson Mar 2005-05-19 http://www.WilsonMar.com/1mercvts.htm Here are tips and tricks to install and use the Virtual Table Server (VTS) program which maintains a virtual (in-memory) database for use by LoadRunner and Winrunner. Wilson Mar 2004-11-19 http://www.wilsonmar.com/1perfmon.htm This is my concise reference on analyzing and tuning Microsoft Windows 2000 and Linux servers using counters and other tools for performance testing and tuning. Sections include Windows Monitoring, Unix Monitoring, Measured Objects, Log Analysis, Instrumentation Profiling Wilson Mar 2004-11-09 http://www.wilsonmar.com/perftune.htm This is my concise reference on the business of tuning (tweaking) servers and applications. Topics include: Tuning Windows, Tuning Linux, Tuning Web Servers, Tuning Java pps Wilson Mar 2005-11-01 http://www.wilsonmar.com/1loadbal.htm This page describes the different approaches to balancing load: Microsoft's Network Load Balancing services and load balancing products. Wilson Mar 2005-06-09 http://www.wilsonmar.com/1javagc.htm This page describes how to tune Sun & IBM Java VM garbage collection for optimum performance and longevity as it frees dynamically allocated memory that is no longer referenced. Topics include: Verbosity Flags. Total Heap Size. From Young to Old Permanent Generation, Concurrency Footprint Wilson Mar 2004-11-09 http://www.wilsonmar.com/lrxls2vu.htm This page describes an Excel spreadsheet with VBA macros that generates LoadRunner VuGen C script to perform load testing Wilson Mar 2005-10-27 http://www.wilsonmar.com/lrexplore.htm This page describes a C# .NET client-side program that scans and opens several drives and folders at a time to display in table form information about load test runs created by LoadRunner during performance testing. Wilson Mar 2005-02-12