Day–1

Introduction to Load Testing

• Why Load Testing is required in our applications?

• Different types of Performance Testing

• Objectives of Performance Testing

• Load Testing in the Product Life Cycle

• Manual load testing issues

• How to overcome Manual Load Testing issues?

• Different components of Load Runner

• Difference between VuGen and VUsers

• Load Runner Supported Protocols

• About Scenario

• Performance Monitors

• Load Testing Process

Planning for Load Testing

• Overview of Goals

• Various Business Processes

• Measuring Steps by defining Transactions

• About Think Time, Concurrency

• Analyzing the System under Test

Installation of Load Runner Components

• Overview of Installation of VuGen, Load Generator, Load Controller and Analysis

• Installation of VuGen

• Installation of Controller

• Installation of Load Generators

• Installation of Analysis

• System requirements for installing Load Runner

• Verifying Connectivity to Load Generator

Scenarios in Load Runner

• Overview of Scenario

• Overview of Load Controller

• Creating a new scenario

• About Vuser Groups

• Difference between Manual and Goal Oriented Scenarios

• Adding Load Generators

• Defining New Load Generator

• Connecting to a Load Generator

Configuring the runtime settings

• Overview of Run –Time settings

• Run – Time settings that will vary with protocol

• How to open Run – Time settings?

• About Run Logic, Pacing, Log Settings, Think Time

• About Additional Attributes

• About Miscellaneous Settings

• About Scenario Run-time settings

Day–2

About Scenario Execution

• Overview of Running a Scenario

• About Rendezvous Point

• Executing a Scenario as a Team

• What is Top Time Transactions?

• Understanding Vuser statuses

• Scenario status in Controller Run Tab

• Common Run – Time errors

Scheduling the Scenarios

• Overview of Scheduling Scenarios

• Configuring the Timing properties by Group

• Configuring the Timing properties by Scenario

• Overview of Ramp up and Ramp Down

• Configuring the Scenario Durations

Load Runner Performance monitoring

• About Performance monitoring

• Importance of Performance Monitors

• Examples of Load runner Performance Monitors

• Various Performance Monitor Graphs

• Setting monitor options

• Configuring Monitors

Analyzing the Results

• Explain the value of performance monitors.
• Select performance monitors to achieve load test goals.
• Add measurements for performance based goals.

Analysis

• Overview of Load runner Analysis

• Various Transaction Analysis Graphs

• Opening a New Graph

• Setting Filter Options

• File Extensions of Analysis Graphs

• Configuring Correlation Options

  HTML and Word Format of Analysis Graphs

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