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Jul 13 2009   10:00AM GMT

Five phases of Performance Testing

Posted by: Jaideep
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As in a software project, the complete project lifecycle comprises of different phases. Similarly the performance testing lifecycle also comprises of various phases. Performance testing is usually, as the name suggests, is done to evaluate or examine the performance of the software product with the help of some tools and certain parameters. The performance testing may include components based on the requirements that include – load, volume, stress etc.

Five prominent phases of performance testing can be:

Phase 1:
a) Test Plan
b) Test strategy

Phase 2:
a) Load Modeling
b) Scripting
c) Benchmarking criteria

Phase 3:
a) Benchmark execution
b) Other executions
c) Reports generation
d) Reports Analysis

Phase 4:
a) Reports reconciliation
b) Reports compilation
c) Final Test Report
d) Bottlenecks identification
e) Recommendations

Phase 5:
a) Execution of recommendations

Nov 24 2008   10:14AM GMT

Challenges of Development/Testing and Open Source Test (OST) Tools

Posted by: Jaideep
software quality assurance, software testing, SOA, software quality, functional testing, Quality Assurance, performance testing, Software testers, load testing, RIA, software qa, AJAX, .OST files, Software testing methodologies, Bug Control Management, Open Source Testing Tools, Traditional Testing Tools, Web2.0, Selenium, HTMLUnit, TestGen4Web, PushToTest, volume testing, testingtool, testing tools

In today’s scenario when the schedules are tight, budgets are low and different technologies being used, software developers and testers are having great challenges of building/testing/releasing bug-free software by meeting all criterions. The question arises here is – how to cover all the development/testing requirements that to in such a short span of time with high rate of accuracy in development and testing. In such a scenario, the best option would be to use Open Source Test (OST) tools. And why not, when Open Source Test (OST) tools provide most economical solution and on top of it they are more flexible as compared to labeled vendor test tools (or traditional testing tools). So many big corporate organizations these days are using Open Source Test (OST) tools such as Ford, AMD and many more.

Many of the open-source testing tools support most of the technologies being used in development these days. Be it AJAX development or rich internet application (RIA) i.e. Web 2.0 on service oriented architecture (SOA), or any other web/server based application.

Some of the Open Source Test (OST) tools are – PushToTest, HTMLUnit, TestGen4Web, Selenium etc. that take care of functional testing, performance testing, load testing and volume testing. If you see all these testing are not possible to conduct manually and using a traditional testing tool would be never be a cost effective solution.