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Introduction to Performance Testing

  • The performance testing lifecycle.
  • Interpreting performance test results.

Understanding Various Architectures and Application Models

  • Two-tier and three-tier architectures.
  • N-tier architecture.
  • Middleware-based architectures (e.g., MQ, Web Services).

Technology

  • Basic UNIX commands (e.g., grep, find, vi editor).
  • Basic Oracle/SQL concepts (e.g., queries, tables, triggers).
  • Foundational C/Java concepts.

Detailed Analysis - Monitoring Concepts and Tools

  • Hardware Monitoring (Windows - Perfmon, UNIX - nmon, vmstat)
    • Run queue (average processor queue length)
    • Network I/O
    • Disk I/O
    • Memory (available, used, paging space, file system cache, etc.)
    • CPU (available, virtual, online, entitled, etc.)
  • Web Server/Application Server Monitoring
    • JVM (Java heap) - heap dump analysis
    • Connection pools
    • Thread pools
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools such as CA Wily Introscope and IBM Tivoli.
  • Database Monitoring
    • Basic query tuning
    • SQL tracing
    • AWR or Statspack analysis
    • Query plans
  • Understanding bandwidth and FTP.
  • Network monitoring using tools like HTTPWatch or Fiddler.

Requirements

  • Familiarity with databases such as Oracle.
  • Knowledge of application servers like WebSphere or WebLogic, among others.
  • Understanding of programming languages such as Java.
  • Prior knowledge of performance testing.
  • Proficiency in SQL.
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