Load Tester Wilson Mar's WeblogNotes on capacity and performance engineering for load testers.2006-01-04T08:30:02+01:00Wilson Marwilsonmar@gmail.comUnless otherwise indicated, Copyright 2005 Wilson Mar. All Rights Reserved.http://www.wilsonmar.com/perftest.htmPerformance Testing Noteshttp://www.wilsonmar.com/perftest.htmHere are my notes on how to conduct performance testing and capacity planning. . Sections include Information Flows & Roles, Roles in a Performance Project, Performance Within Development LifeCycles, The Context of Performance (Technology Layers), Forms/Types of Performance Testing, Load Testing Products, Capacity/Performance Mgmt. Workflow 2005-12-25T18:30:01-07:00Corporate Quality Management and Metricshttp://www.wilsonmar.com/qmstages.htmQuality Management is more than just testing (a Quality Control activity). This describes the difference. More sophisticated Quality Management coincides with an organization's maturity and capability.2005-12-25T18:30:02-07:00Load Testing Tools Productshttp://www.wilsonmar.com/1ltprods.htmThis page lists, describes, and compares software products for conducting load, stress, and performance testing. 2005-12-25T18:30:03-07:00Diagnostics and Production Monitoringhttp://www.wilsonmar.com/1ltdiag.htmHere is a strategy to use Mercury LoadRunner with Diagnostics, with graphic-supported explanations of the difference between diagnostics and production monitoring Business Availability products.2006-01-03T18:30:02-07:00Mercury Loadrunner product usage at loadrunn.info http://www.wilsonmar.com/1loadrun.htmHere are my notes on using LoadRunner for performance testing. Topics include: Installation & Configuration, Monitors, Product Versions, VuGen Recording, Controller Scenarios, Protocols, Trans. Response Times, Measurement Calcs, Measures of Variation, Analysis Module. The page features a stopwatch you can start and stop... for those times when you don't need a million-dollar piece of software. 2005-12-25T18:30:04-07:00Mercury LoadRunner Vu Scripting at vuscripting.comhttp://www.wilsonmar.com/1lrscript.htmHow to write vu C scripts used in performance tesing with LoadRunner. 2005-12-25T18:30:05-07:00Mercury LoadRunner Error Database Viewerhttp://www.wilsonmar.com/lrerrlist.htmHere is a totally stand-alone ASP classic script you can drop onto your IIS or PWS server to view summary and detail error messages generated by LoadRunner. The ASP application uses several advanced ASP tricks: cookies, ADO paging, etc. 2004-11-09T18:30:06-07:00Mercury LoadRunner Analysis Statistics and Graphs http://www.wilsonmar.com/lr_rpt.htmThis page explains the sample Summary Report generated by LoadRunner and then, more importantly, explain how to make use of them to make decisions.2005-05-19T18:30:07-07:00Mercury Virtual Table Server for LoadRunnerhttp://www.wilsonmar.com/1mercvts.htmHere are tips and tricks to install and use the Virtual Table Server (VTS) program which maintains a virtual (in-memory) database for use by LoadRunner and Winrunner.2004-11-19T18:30:08-07:00Performance Monitorshttp://www.wilsonmar.com/1perfmon.htmThis is my concise reference on analyzing and tuning Microsoft Windows 2000 and Linux servers using counters and other tools for performance testing and tuning. Sections include Windows Monitoring, Unix Monitoring, Measured Objects, Log Analysis, Instrumentation
Profiling 2004-11-09T18:30:09-07:00Performance Tuning Ideashttp://www.wilsonmar.com/perftune.htmThis is my concise reference on the business of tuning (tweaking) servers and applications. Topics include: Tuning Windows, Tuning Linux, Tuning Web Servers, Tuning Java pps2004-11-01T18:30:10-07:00Load Balancing Servershttp://www.wilsonmar.com/1loadbal.htmThis page describes the different approaches to balancing load: Microsoft's Network Load Balancing services
and load balancing products.2005-06-09T18:30:11-07:00Java Virtual Machine Performance Tuninghttp://www.wilsonmar.com/1javagc.htmThis page describes how to tune Sun & IBM Java VM garbage collection for optimum performance and longevity as it frees dynamically allocated memory that is no longer referenced. Topics include: Verbosity Flags. Total Heap Size. From Young to Old Permanent Generation, Concurrency Footprint 2004-11-19T18:30:12-07:00LoadRunner Scripts Generated from Spreadsheetshttp://www.wilsonmar.com/lrxls2vu.htmThis page describes an Excel spreadsheet with VBA macros that generates LoadRunner VuGen C script to perform load testing 2005-10-27T18:30:13-07:00LoadRunner Load Run Results Explorer http://www.wilsonmar.com/lrexplore.htmThis page describes a C# .NET client-side program that scans and opens several drives and folders at a time to display in table form information about load test runs created by LoadRunner during performance testing. 2005-10-27T18:30:14-07:00Hyperformix Mercury Capacity Planninghttp://www.wilsonmar.com/1mcp.aspxThis describes the benefits of this product for performance engineers. The architecture of the product is summarized, but each file and component is also detailed. Sample files that come with the application are presented in formats that are easy to understand.2006-05-30T18:30:14-07:00Mercury Diagnosticshttp://www.wilsonmar.com/1lrdiag.aspxHere is a concise technical description of the various products Mercury provides to monitor computer systems. Included are deep knowledge descriptions of the from manuals and work experience.2006-09-19T18:30:14-07:00