Linux Essentials for Testers
As a software tester, knowledge of basic Linux commands is a necessary. Before going in to details commands we should be aware of some of the facts of Linux OS. Facts You can do almost anything in a terminal which…
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Why do performance testing?
Objective/Need of Performance testing At the highest level, performance testing is almost always conducted to address one or more risks related to expense, opportunity costs, continuity, and/or corporate reputation. Some more specific reasons for conducting performance testing include: Assessing release…
Whats new in JMeter 2.9
Its been quite some time since JMeter 2.9 is available. There have been few notable changes in the new version of JMeter. JMeter can now handle different types of documents (PDF, MsOffice files, Apache OpenOffice’s files…) within different elements. What…
Monitoring windows server using JMeter plugin
JMeter plugin is the very much usefull in load testing. Long time back I had posted an article for monitoring windows server using Nagios. Now you do not require Nagios any more. A JMeter plugin is available which can be used…
What is performance testing?
“Performance testing is defined as the technical investigation done to determine or validate the speed, scalability, and/or stability characteristics of the system under test.” Types of Performance testing Performance test Load test Stress test Spike test Capacity Test Soak/endurance test…
Performance counters and there meaning in JMeter
Common performance counters and there meaning in JMeter. Elapsed time – JMeter measures the elapsed time from just before sending the request to just after the last response has been received. It does not include the time needed to render…
IP Switching and Load Testing
IP Switching in Load testing The most common use for IP Switching is when load testing against a load balancer. Load balancer typically use the IP address to route requests to a particular Web server in the farm. So if…
Fundamentals of Testing – Testing Principles
Fundamentals of Testing – Testing principles Principal 1: Testing shows presence of defects Testing can show that defects are present, but cannot prove that there are no defects. Testing reduces the probability of undiscovered defects remaining in the software but,…
Saving perfmon data
If you are using perfmon tool in windows, you may sometime want to save the data for future analysis. To accomplish this you need to follow the following steps. Launch the perfmon tool. To open Performance Monitor, click Start,…
Load Testing using The Grinder
Introduction The Grinder is an open source load testing tool. The Grinder uses Jython scripts and the scripts are executed using agents which can be distributed over the network. Property file is used to define tests and load. The Grinder…