Core Performance Testing Activities

Here is a structure of how to implement Core Performance Testing Activities on a perticular scenario:

1. Identify the Test Environment
2. Identify Performance Acceptance Criteria
3. Plan and Design Tests
4. Configure or Update tools & Load Generation Environment
5. Implement Test Design
6. Execute Tests
7. Analyze Results, Reports and Retest

Performance testing approach of each described here for the above seven activities are:

1. Identify the Test Environment Which means Identifying the physical environment and the business environment. The physical environment includes the appropriate hardware, software, and network configurations where as the business environment includes business objectives, risks, team roles and contacts.

2. Identify Performance Acceptance Criteria: Identify the response time, throughput and resource utilization goals and constraints. To be in general, response time is generally a user concern, throughput is a business concern, and resource utilization is a system concern.

3. Plan and Design Tests: which indicates us to Identifying key scenarios and metrics.

4. Configure or Update Tools and Load Generation Environment which meann to get the tools and resources prepared to execute this strategy as features and components become available for test.

5. Implement Test Design is used Identify the workloads and workload profiles and Create the performance tests.

6. Execute Test: Run your tests that were prepared.

7. Analyze Results, Report, and Retest: If all of the metric values are within accepted limits and none of the set thresholds have been violated, the tests have passed and you have finished testing that particular scenario on that particular configuration.