ISTQB® Specialist: Performance Testing
Dive into the world of performance testing. This course will teach you the fundamental theoretical knowledge needed to perform performance testing effectively.
What you'll learn
The world of performance testing is both challenging and fun. In this course, ISTQB® Specialist: Performance Testing, you’ll gain the fundamental knowledge and skills underpinning performance testing.
First, you’ll explore the basic concepts and terminology of performance testing.
Next, you’ll learn the different metrics and measurements used.
Finally, you’ll gain an overview of what every major performance testing task involves - from planning to reporting.
When you’re finished with this course, you’ll be ready to learn and use specific performance testing tools to deliver performant software.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Measurement vs. Metric 3m
- Technical Metrics: Time 3m
- Technical Metrics: Throughput 2m
- Technical Metrics: Utilization 1m
- Technical Metrics: Reliability 3m
- Practice Questions 1m
- Translating to Business Metrics 4m
- Operational Metrics 1m
- Key Sources of Metrics 1m
- The GQM Approach 2m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 2m
- Starting a PTP Plan 3m
- Writing a Test Project Overview 1m
- Defining Test Objectives 2m
- Formulating Baseline Assumptions 2m
- Capturing Acceptance Criteria 2m
- Adding SUT Configuration 3m
- Learning the Protocols 4m
- What Comes Next 1m
- Data! Data! Data! 4m
- Actions vs. Transactions 1m
- Gathering User-defined Data 3m
- Constructing Operational Profiles 4m
- Practice Questions 1m
- Creating Load Profiles 2m
- Pacing vs. Think Time 2m
- Load and Concurrency 1m
- Practice Questions 1m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Implementing: Adding Parameterization 4m
- Implementing: Performing Correlation 4m
- Implementing: Refactoring Setup and Cleanup 1m
- Implementing: Minding Caching and Concurrency 4m
- Practice Questions 1m
- Executing: Core Concerns 3m
- Analyzing: What to Look Out For 2m
- Reporting 2m
- Summary 0m
About the author
With over 10 years of industry experience, Andrejs is a seasoned tester and test automation professional. His capabilities span from hands-on test automation of UI and Web API layers to handling message-driven architectures. Additionally, he has proven experience in guiding and coordinating teams of testers to formulate comprehensive test plans and cases.