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,…
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Category Software Testing
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…
Importance of Latency and Bandwidth in Web response time
The six parameters of Web response time are listed below: Page size: Page size is measured in Kbytes, and on the surface, the impact of this variable is pretty obvious: the larger the page, the longer it takes to download.…
Truth about test plan document & test case document
Truth About Test Plan Documents – 98% of test plan documents that are created are not updated, maintained or cared beyond sign off. – The first 5 pages of a test plan document contains history that doesn’t interest even those…
Security Testing – What is Security testing?
What is Security testing? Security testing is a process to determine that an information system protects data and maintains functionality as intended. It is the process that determines that confidential data stays confidential and users can perform only those tasks…
Fundamentals of testing – Why is testing necessary?
Why is testing necessary? Testing is necessary because we all make mistakes. Some of those mistakes are unimportant, but some of them are expensive or dangerous. We need to check everything and anything we produce because things can always go…
Security Testing
Security Testing What is Security testing? Security testing is a process to determine that an information system protects data and maintains functionality as intended. It is the process that determines that confidential data stays confidential and users can perform only…
Solving software performance problems
How to solve software performance problems ? 1. Define your Objective -where you need to be? It is surprising that many projects do not have well-defined performance objectives. When we ask what the performance objectives are, we very often get…
Statistical Principals for the Performance Tester
Over the years I found that members of software development teams, developers, testers, administrators and managers alike have an insufficient grasp on how to apply mathematics or interpret statistical data on the job. As performance testers, we must know and…
Economics of test automation
How to calculate the cost of test automation: Cost of test automation = Cost of tool(s) + Labor costs of script creation + Labor costs of script maintenance If a test script will be run every week for the…