Microsoft Performance Testing best practices-patterns & Practices performance testing guidance

Performance Testing

• How to: conducting CT performance testing core steps for a Web application
• How to: determine performance testing objectives
• How to: conducting CT performance testing
• How to: conducting CT performance testing with automatic load testing tools
• How to: Manage the performance test cycle_agile
• How to: Manage the performance test cycle_cmme
• How to: Upgrade lidate various types of performance acceptance criteria
• How to: coordinate Performance Testing with an iteration base Process
• How to: Evaluate systems to improve performance testing extends tiveness
• How to: quantify end-user Response Time Goals
• Explained: Types of Performance Testing
• Explained: Key mathematic principles for performance testers

Capacity

• How to: capacity plan for Web applications using Transaction Cost Analysis
• How to: capacity plan for Web applications using predictive analysis

Load Testing

• How to: Load Test Web Applications
• How to: Step through creating a load test in Visual Studio team system
• How to: Load Test Web applications using Visual Studio team system
• How to: Use Data Binding in load tests in Microsoft Visual Studio team system

Stress Testing

• How to: stress test Web Applications

Test Cases/Scripting

• How to: control the number of Load Test iterations in Visual Studio team system
• How to: create a load test plug-in using Visual Studio team system
• How to: correlate dynamic data in a load test transaction
• How to: programmatically set think time between test iterations in Visual Studio team system

Troubleshooting

• How to: identify functions causing high CPU
• How to: identify a disk performance bottleneck using SPA

Tuning

• How to: tune performance of Web Applications

Workload Modeling

• How to: use IIS log files in Performance Testing
• How to: model the workload for Web Applications
• How to: model the user experience from web server logs
• How to: model user delays and think times
• How to: account for user abandonment
• How to: Model Application Usage without empirical data
• How to: model an Application Usage