Optimize your load and performance testing costs

Load Testing helps to study the behaviors of application under the specified load. Performance bottlenecks which causes performance degrade can be identified during load testing. Following are the basic methodology for load testing: identifying critical scenarios, effective work load model, test script design with enhancements, load simulation, collecting the performance metrics and benchmarking & recommendations.

You can consider Ajax as a set of enabling technologies for the Web 2.0 transition from a static to an interactive web environment. The primary strength of Ajax is allowing web based applications to have the interactivity of familiar desktop tools. Generally the goal of user interface design is to improve usability and the overall user experience -- Ajax simplifies achieving this goal.

Tomcat server can have many performance tuning options. This is mainly due to rigorous testing of a number of options. You will gain a considerable amount of performance by deploying appropriate hardware, operating system and JVM combination for the use of Tomcat server. In this paper, we will study how

Load distribution across all the identified scenarios is called the Workload. Workload model of an application depicts how this application will be used in the production environment. In order to get such performance test results which portray the true picture of an application under test, it should be tested on a workload model which is very similar to the production environment.

Oracle performance tuning best practices that any administrator, database designer and performance tester must focus on.

In this paper, we will discuss the importance of selecting the right set of application scenarios for your load test and will provide you the criteria for selection of best candidates for load testing along with the approaches to help you reach out the scenario selection decision.

This white paper gives in-depth information regarding the performance tuning approach to be adopted in implementing a highly available and scalable Websphere Application Server environment.

Performance test results largely depend upon the test environment and having the test environment as an exact replica of the production system is the fundamental point in performance testing. Quite often, performance testing is conducted on the production system to overcome the test environment issues. In this article, we will discuss what production system is, reasons to conduct performance testing on production system, myths regarding testing on production system, risks associated with testing on production system and best practices of effectively testing an application in the production environment.

MySQL Cluster is a real time, scalable and transactional database. This white paper explores most of the optimization methods for enhancing the performance of MySQL Cluster. With these methods, you can handle a variety of workload requirements.

Executing the performance test on production similar system and availability of all the required resources to successfully run the test is very essential. Creating the exact replica of the production system is undoubtedly the most important part of the whole testing activity as even the minor differences between the test environment and production system can completely invalidate the test results.