What are the career scopes in Software Performance Testing?
Thanks for A2A.Performance testing is a field in which there will be no scarcity of jobs.Without performance testing sign off, high end application can not step up into the market.It requires an years of experience to learn performance testing concepts and get going. Its more practical than theoretical.You need to be good in coding specifically in tool's language. In most of the cases its C or Java. At initial stages, scripting is that all matters. Every company who hires Performance Candidate expects, you should at least good in scripting. To make your scripting powerful you must know how to make a logic and implement it in your comfortable language (C would be preferable). File handling,String manipulation, loop structures, and good logic making skill that's all requires to get started with. Your interview questions will be more practical oriented than theoretical. So if are looking for the same, so you should have logic making and implementation skills. Later on you can develop analytical,reporting and presentation skills once you are in the industry.Thanks.
Is software deployed after performance testing?
Hi Sunny, Yes, the web applications are deployed only after evaluating performance in Production-replica environments. This is a standard approach that is followed in qa testing companies. Also, it is recommended that you should not execute performance test on Production environment as this may lead to major slow down in application response and impact the end user experience. Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks, Anand
What are the most important tasks in software performance testing?
With over 5 years of experience in performance testing, I will say, a proper result analysis and report preparation is the most important task in performance testing. If the report is inadequate, or doesn't help take a business decision, all the other activities, most often, looks worthless.But it won't be wise to single out any single task to be more important than the other.Core testing activities as listed in MSDN here -
What is performance testing in software development?
Performance testing is basically understanding how well and quick the software runs. What you are testing really depends on what your application does. Typically there is a statement of performance requirement in the initial requirements you are trying to test for. For example, in database you would measure number of transactions per time period. For networking, it would be number of communication packages. For a display/monitor, how quickly it can display images over time. You would test performance in an unloaded (nothing else going on) system to find out what the is best the software/system can do. You would then test in based on a typical load (other programs running, etc.) to see how the system responds in simulated use. Typically these are done over a long period of time (relative to what is being measured) so you get an average value.
What are some good ways to integrate software performance testing into the development cycle?
I believe that performance testing needs to be a part of continuous integration process like:Make a commitRun unit testsRun automated functional testsRun performance testsAll above actions should be orchestrated by continuous integration server like Welcome to Jenkins CI!So you will be aware of any negative impact which is introduced by recent changes. In our company we use Apache JMeter - Apache JMeter™ which can be executed from command line, as Ant task, Maven plugin, or programmatically. See 5 Ways To Launch a JMeter Test without Using the JMeter GUI | BlazeMeter to learn more about the options. Moreover, there is a Performance Plugin which integrates Jenkins with JMeter so performance testing process is a part of software build and it can trigger build failure in case of one metric exceeding acceptable boundaries.
What is non functional testing in software testing?
It's testing of "how" the product functions. Non functional testing might be performed at all test levels. The phrase non-functional testing talks about the tests necessary to determine features of systems and software which can be quantified on a varying scale, for example response times for performance testing. Forms of Non-functional testing are performance testing, load testing, stress testing, usability testing, maintainability testing, reliability.