Complete Web Performance Testing using Jmeter and AWS

1. Course teaches you complete Performance Testing to kick start your career:

     a) Why,When,What of Performance Testing

     b) How Performance impacts revenues

     c) Economy of Performance Testing

     d) Terminology and concepts (below are just key ones)

          1. Response time, Think Time, Pacing time

         2. Concurrency

         3. Vuser, Latency

        4. Types of Architectures

        5. Utilizations

        6. Types of Performance Tests

   e) Performance Test Life Cycle

       1. Stages

       2. Activities

       3. Best practices

2. How does HTTP/HTML protocol work

    a) Using ‘Developer Tools’

    b) HTTP Request

    c) HTTP Response

    d) HTTP Headers

    e) Response code

    f) Methods – GEP,POST,PUT,DELETE

    g) url encoding

3. Statistics required for a Performance Tester

    a) Average,Std Deviation,percentile

4. Basic Performance Laws

5. Jmeter Hands on Sessions

    a) Script preparation

        i. Parameterization

       ii. Correlation

       iii. Assertion

       iv. debugging

  b) Understanding and usage of all the required Jmeter elements - TestPlan,ThreadGroup,Listners,Samplers, Timers,Pre-processors, Post Processors,DebugSampler,HTTPs Test Script Recorder etc.

  c) Regular Expressions

  d) Introduction to Groovy Scripting

  e) Recording Scripts

     i. Browser proxy settings

     ii. Security Certidicate

   f) Jmeter Templates

   g) Jmeter variables and properties

   h) Functions

   i) Plugin Manager

   j) Dryruns

   k) Set up Load Test

   l) Running Jmeter in CLI mode

m) Load Test Execution

  n) Basic Results Analysis

  o) Scoping rules

  p) Best Practices in Jmeter usage

6 Introduction to Cloud Computing

- Evolution of IT Infra

- Traditional Data Center - Infrastructure view

- What is Cloud Computing?

- Benefits of Cloud Computing

- Types of cloud computing – IaaS,PaaS,SaaS

7 Terminology

-Region

-Availability Zones - Azs

-Regions vs Azs

-VPC,IP addressing

-Introduction to EC2

-AMI, EBS (Elastic Block Store) ,Security group

-Scalability

-Vertical and horizontal Scaling

-Vertical scaling – up/down

-Horizontal scaling – in/out

-Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

-ASG(Auto Scaling Group)

-RDP, Snapshot

-Free Tier

Conclusion

8 Creating your AWS account

Steps involved in Creating AWS account

Walkthrough of AWS Console

Creating Zero spend budget

9 DO's and DON'ts with Free Tier

10 Practice Session - Creating Single EC2 instance

Creating EC2 instance – step by step process

Creating EC2 instance - Hands on Session

Terminating EC2 and Housekeeping Activities

11 Creating Performance Test Environment (PTE) on AWS

Three configurations of Performance Test Environments - Description

WebTours and Jmeter on same machine

Web Tours and Jmeter on separate machines

Distributed Testing = Controller-Node (Master slave) architecture

12 Performance Test Environment - configuration - 1 - WebTours and Jmeter on same machine

Steps involved in creating PTE

Launch EC2

Copy installable on EC2

Install Web Tours, Java9 and Jmeter on EC2

Execute a script and validate results

13 Performance Test Environment - configuration - 2 – Web Tours and Jmeter on separate machines

Steps involved in creating PTE

Launch 2# EC2s

Copy installable on EC2s

Install Web Tours, Java9 and Jmeter on EC2

Execute a script and validate results

14 Performance Test Environment - configuration - 3 - Distributed Testing (Controller-Node (Master slave) architecture)

Steps involved in creating Distributed Testing PTE

Launch 2# EC2s

Copy installable on EC2s

Create 2 more EC2s using AMI

Install Web Tours, Java9 and Jmeter on EC2

Set up Jmeter controller and nodes

Execute a script and validate results