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Performance Testing for Web and Client/Server Applications B.M.Subraya, Infosys

The extraordinary growth of the Client/Server(C/S) and World Wide Web technology has been sweeping through business and industry. Many companies have developed or integrated their critical applications using C/S or Web technologies. As these applications become more complex, testing of such applications becomes critical, particularly from the standpoint of performance. Performance depends, among other things, upon the load on the system at peak time under varying conditions. Performance testing is normally conducted in a simulated environment with the help of performance testing tools. However, performance of the system depends on numerous parameters and must be tested under varying stress levels. This tutorial provides an in-depth study of how to carry out performance testing of C/S and Web applications from the concept to implementation (in fine grain) through a case study.

Key areas to be addressed are:

• Introduction to performance, objectives, need for performance
• Overview of Client/Server and Web testing, its complexities and impact on Performance testing.
• How to test system performance and ability to handle load and stress.
• How to design a benchmark based on business operation?
• What is a workload in C/S as well as in Web applications?
• How to test systems for scalability?
• How to automate the performance testing?
• How to define performance testing process and strategy?
• How to set the quality process for performance testing?

Dr. Subraya B.M. currently working as Principal Research Consultant to Education and Research Department of Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India. Dr.Subraya holds Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi from Computer Science & Engineering Department, in the area of hardware verification. He is currently responsible for managing the Web Performance Testing Centre of the Organization. He has offered tutorials in Web Performance Testing in many pre-conference Tutorials including QAI and SEPG^SM International Conference. He has published many papers in international conferences in the area of Performance Testing of Web applications.

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