How to start Performance

Testing project?
A practical guide to performance testers

Author: NaveenKumar Namachivayam

Writer at www.QAInsights.com
● Send business proposal to the
clients
● Once your client agreed, start
collecting Non-Functional
Requirements
● Non-Functional requirements such
as Response Time, Throughput,
Transactions per sec, CPU usage,
Memory, Disk, Network etc.
● Industry standards like Response
Time < 5 seconds, CPU and
Memory usage < 60%
● Identify Critical Scenarios
● If your client is not able to provide
critical scenarios and workload
models, we can derive it from the
server logs.
● Tools like 123loganalyzer, Deep
Log Analyzer, AWstats, Analog etc.
● If no server logs available, analyze
the business applications and
identify the critical scenarios.
● E.g. Banking application.

Critical Scenarios will be

1. Login
2. Check Balance
3. Apply for Loans
4. Pay Bills
...etc...
● Identify the performance testing
tool
● Record your critical scenarios
● Enhance your scripts such as
1. Inserting Transactions
2. Correlations
3. Think Time
4. Run time settings
5. Browser settings
6. Cache settings
... etc...

then perform a unit test to baseline the

script
● Create Scenarios to execute. Define
following:

1. Ramp-up period
2. Steady State
3. Ramp-down period
4. Loops
5. Mix of transactions
6. IP Spoofing

...etc...
● Execute the scenario at least three cycles.

1. Baseline Test
Perform the test with 15-20% of target load
2. Load Test
Perform with actual load for three cycles.
Steady State duration: min. 1 hr
3. Stress Test
Perform load test and then slowly ramp-up the
load step-by-step. Disable Think time and Cache
settings
Steady State duration: min. 2-3 hr
4. Endurance Test
Perform load test for 10-14 hours to identify
memory leaks
● Collect metrics such as

1. Response Time
2. Throughput
3. Transactions per second
4. CPU Usage
5. Memory
6. Disk utilization

● Prepare Report
● Baseline the report
● Compare with Benchmarks and previous results
 Thank you!

Happy Performance Testing!

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