Load Runner Introduction

1. Planning an Effective Load Test
2. Load Runner Installation

LR Architecture
Components in Load Runner
Virtual User Generator
Load Controller
Analysis
Load Generator
Agent Process
Where to Install LR Components
Identify H/w & S/w

3. Virtual User Generator
Recording script for web
Recording levels
URL/HTML
Enhancing script
Replay & Play back
Script functions
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Protocal Specific functions
General LR functions
Transactions
Purpose of Transactions
Transactions after Recording
Actions
Multiple Actions
Debugging
Check Points
Parameterization
Playback problems
Correlation
Auto & Automatic
Manual
Run Time settings
Logs

4. Controller
Creating Scenarios
Manual Scenarios
Goal Oriented scenario
Schedule by scenario
Schedule by group
Executing scenario
Adding Local Generator
Local Host
Remote Host
RunTime Settings in Controller
Configuring scenario
Ramp-up
Vuser exceution status
Rendezvous polices
Performance metrics
Client side
Server side
Performance monitors
Add Measurements

5. Analysis
Analysis Results
Granularity
Merging
Auto Collate
Filters
Finding Bottlenecks
Root Cause Analysis
Graph Analysis
Generating Reports

Performance Testing
1. Performance Engineering Approach
What is Performance
Objectives
Scope
2. Performance Myths
3. Performance Engineering Model
System Sizing–> Modeling Review& Engineering Desgin–>Code
Optimization–> Performance Testing & Tunning –> Monitoring & Desgin Performance
4. Architecture & Desgin Performance
5. Code Optimization examples
6. Tunning Examples
7. Performance Profiling
8. Performance Testing process
9. Performance Testing Planning

Types of test
WorkLaod characterizations
Data population
Test Targets
Schedule Estimations

Test Plan Desgin
10. Performance test Scenarios
11. Business Call flows
12. Types of performance tests
13. Performance Measurements
14. Performance Monitoring
15. Benchmark Parameter
16. Servers

Web Servers, Application Severs, DataBase Servers.