The performance testing of Web applications is not understood properly and no skill sets are available to address the challenges faced by practitioners. In addition, there is currently a lack of available research on the performance aspects of the application.
Integrated Approach to Web Performance Testing: A Practitioner's Guide fills this void and provides an integrated approach and guidelines to performance testing of Web-based systems. Based upon a mix of theoretical and practical concepts, this book provides a detailed understanding of the various aspects of performance testing in relation to the different phases of the software development life cycle. Using a rich mixture of examples, checklists, and templates, this book illustrates the different facets of application performance. Integrated Approach to Web Performance Testing: A Practitioner's Guide applies a practical approach to making appropriate choices of tools, methodologies and project management for performance testing.
The chapters are filled with real-life examples, as well as illustrative working code, to facilitate the reader’s understanding of different facets of the testing process. The discussion of testing methodology is anchored by a running case study which helps illustrate the application of test plans, strategies, and techniques. The case study and examples help demonstrate various approaches in developing performance testing strategies, benchmark designs, operation profiles and workloads. By bringing an experiential understanding into aspects of Web performance testing, the author is able to offer useful tips to effectively plan and execute testing activity. In addition, the book offers various guidelines and checklists to help practitioners conduct and analyze results using the various testing tools available for Web based applications.
The book provides a highly systematic approach to performance testing and offers an expert’s eye view of the testing and functionality of Web systems. Subraya is careful to provide broad, initial groundwork for the subject in his first three chapters, which makes this text accessible even to the beginner.
Integrated Approach to Web Performance Testing: A Practitioner’s Guide will prove to be a valuable tool for testing professionals, as well as for students, academicians and researchers.
About the Author
Dr. B. M. Subraya is an associate vice president, education and research, at Infosys Technologies Limited, India. He is currently working as principal researcher and head of the Global Education Center (GEC) at Mysore where he is responsible for foundation-level training of new employees. He has offered tutorials in Web Performance Testing in many pre-conference Tutorials including QAI, SEPG and PSQT international Conferences. He has published many papers in international conferences in the area of Performance Testing of Web applications. Dr. Subraya holds a Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Technology.