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Course Code: RPT102 |
Source: IBM |
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Course Length: 3 days |
Price: $1,795 |
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This advanced course is designed to enhance
a student's knowledge of the performance
testing lifecycle using IBM Rational
Performance Tester. Web-based applications
are the focus of the class, during which
students are provided insight into the
architecture of web-based applications,
implications upon test planning, automation,
execution, and analysis. The course includes
lecture and classroom discussion, with an
emphasis on student exercises and labs
applicable to real-world web applications
and challenges. Extensive data correlation
and parameterization techniques are
addressed in the context of standard web
clients, rich web clients, and desktop web
clients. The course will require extensive
Java programming in order to address the
needs of business process automation and its
requirements to properly model an
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• Users intending to be immersed within the
performance testing life cycle, including
the following: Performance Engineers, Test
Automation Engineers and Quality Assurance
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At the end of the course, you will be able
to:
• Understand the fundamentals of a performance testing methodology in conjunction with the IBM Rational Performance Tester software
• Recognize the challenges and solutions for testing different web application architectures
• Comprehend the essentials of analyzing end-user perceived performance and system performance with the goal of achieving optimal application scalability
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• Experience working within the Eclipse
platform
• Java programming experience, including
the following topics:
• Basic object-oriented concepts,
including class and method creation
• String Manipulation (String and
StringBuffer classes)
• Regular Expressions (Pattern and Matcher
classes)
• Java containers (Hashmap, ArrayList and
Vector classes)
• File I/O (Streams, RandomAccessFile
class)
• Flow Control (looping, conditional
statements)
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Performance Testing Methodology
• Exploration of the performance testing
concepts, strategies and terminology
• Understanding the performance testing process
Test Planning
• Overview of web architecture and its
implications upon Rational Performance Tester
• Workload analysis and component monitoring
strategies
Test Automation
• Best practices for business process
automation, such as navigational modularization
and creating reusable automated test assets
• Approaching service level reporting by
measuring business process response time,
reliability, and application availability
• Detecting application layer errors and
advanced error handling
• Advanced data correlation, including the
random selection from lists, such as HTML form
option values and lists of hyperlinks
• Testing rich web clients that use custom
controls, such as ActiveX controls and Java
applets, as well as desktop web clients
• Testing file uploads and other complex HTML
forms that use multi-part form data
• Testing service-oriented architectures (SOA),
such as web services
Test Execution
• Test tool playback architecture
• Test tool playback optimization
• Component performance monitoring and tuning
• Best practices for executing tests
Test Analysis
• Understanding statistics and presenting
applicable results
• Performing root cause analysis
• Best practices for presentation of results
• Ancillary tools for analysis, such as
Microsoft Excel
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Course Schedule
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| 07/09/2008 |
New York, NY Enroll |
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| 09/10/2008 |
New York, NY Enroll |
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