PREFACE

1 WHY PERFORMANCE TEST?

What Is Performance?The End-User Perspective

Bad Performance:Why It's So Common Summary

2 THE FUNDAMENTALS OF EFFECTIVE APPLICATION PERFORMANCE TESTING

Choosing and Appropriate Performance Test Environment

Setting Realistic and Appropriate Performance Targets

Making Sure Your Application is Stable Enough for Performance Testing

Obtaining a Code Freeze

Identifying and Scripting the Business-Critical Transactions

Providing Sufficient Test Data of High Quality

Ensuring Accurate Performance Test Design

Identifying the Server and Network Key Performance Indicators(KPIs

Allocating Enough Time to Performance Test Effectively

3 THE PROCESS OF PERFORMANCE TESTING

The Proof of Concept(POC

From Requirements to Performance Test

Case Study 1:Online Banking

Case Study 2:Call Center

Summary

4 INTERPRETING RESULTS:EFFECTUVE ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSIS

The Analysis Process

Types of Output from a performance Test

Root-Cause Analysis

Analysis Checklist

Summary

5 APPLICATION TECHNOLOGY AND ITS IMPACT ON PERFORMANCE TESTING

Astbcgribiys Java and XML(AJAX

Citrix

HTTP Protocol

Java

Oracle

SAP

Service-Orientated Architecture(SOA

Web 2.0

Oddball Application Technologies:Help,My Load Testing Tool Won't Won't Record it!

A TRANCTION EXAMPLES

B POC AND PERFORMANCE TEST QUICK PEFERENCE

C AUTOMAZ TOOL VENDORS

D SAMPLE KPI MONITORING TEMPLATES

E SAMPLE PROJECT

INDEX