Target Audience:

The target audience for the program are Software Test Managers, Test Leads, Test professionals, Configuration Engineer with basic knowledge on Automation and minimum two years experience in  Software Development Life Cycles, and should be involved with any / all / either of the functions given below:

Test Management
Performance Testing
Configuration Management
Testing

Course Objective:

After the completion of the course, the participants would be able to:

• Understand the basic concepts of Load Runner
• Plan an Effective Load Test
• Create Load Scenarios
• Execution of Scenarios
• Scheduling Scenario
• Performance Monitors
• Analyzing the results

Details of Topics Covered:

Day One:

Introduction

• Participants
• Familiarization with course material
• Familiarization with the protocols and timings
• Expectation setting and clarifications

Load Runner Introduction

• Why Load Test Your Application
• Types of Performance Testing
• Examples of Performance Testing Objectives
• Load Testing in the Product Life Cycle
• Manual Testing is Problematic
• Load Runner Solution
• Load Runner Methodology
• Load Runner Load Testing Component
• Load Runner Launch Screen
• Load Runner Scripting Component
• What is Vuser?
• What is Scenario?
• What is Controller?
• Load Runner Performance Monitoring
• Load Testing Process

Introduction to Scenario

• Load Runner Expert View – Understanding Scenario
• What is Scenario
• The Load Runner Controller
• Scenario Outline - Examples
• Creating a New Scenario
• Select Vuser scripts
• Vuser Groups
• Adding Vuser Groups
• Modifying the Vuser Group Setting
• Adding Load Generator
• Defining a New Load Generator
• Connecting to a Load Generator
• Configuring Load Generator Settings
• Using Run- time settings
• Vuser Run Time Settings
• Accessing Run Time settings
• Configuring Run Logic
• Pacing
• Log Settings
• Configuring Think Time
• Scenario Run Time Settings
• Ramp Up and Ramp Down
• Scheduled by Scenario & Scheduled by Group

Day Two:
Performance Monitors

• Using Performance Monitors
• Performance Monitors
• Selecting Online Monitors
• Set Monitoring Options
• Configure Monitors
• Monitor Measurement
• Web Resource Monitoring
• Transaction Monitoring
• System Resource Monitoring
• Network Delay Monitoring
• Firewall Monitoring
• Web Server Resource Monitoring
• Database Server Monitoring
• Java Performance Monitoring
• Middle ware Monitoring
• Infrastructure Monitoring

Load Runner Vugen

• Introducing Vugen
• Working with Vugen
• Working with Java Language Protocols
• Application Deployment Solution Protocols
• Client Server Protocols
• E- Business Protocols
• Enterprise Java Bean Protocols
• Mailing Service Protocols
• Middleware Protocol

Understanding Analysis

• Introducing Analysis
• Working with Analysis Graphs
• Cross Result and Merged Graphs
• Importing External Data
• Analysis Graphs
• Vuser Graphs
• Error Graphs
• Transaction Graphs
• Web Resource Graphs
• User Defined Data Point Graph Analysis Reports
• Understanding Analysis
• Creating a Microsoft Word Report