Performance Engineering vs Testing

Created By : Vinay Prakash

 Agenda

• Performance Testing vs Engineering

• Why Performance Engineering
• Area Which Covered under Performance Engineering
• Tips and area which should Covered
1. Apps side & DB Side Tools
2. Thread Dump
3. Heap Dump
4. Performance Tuning

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 Performance Testing vs Engineering

Software Performance Testing: To test and

certify the quality of the application with respect to
the performance.

Software Performance Engineering: To

plan and build a quality software without or minimum
performance bottlenecks.

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Performance Testing is a quality check of the
application in terms of the application’s
responsiveness and load handling capacity.
Performance Testing verifies how a system will
perform under production load and to anticipate
issues that might arise during heavy load
conditions. On the other hand, Performance
engineering aims to design the application by
keeping the performance metrics in mind and also
to discover potential issues early in the
development cycle.
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 Performance Testing is a
distinctive QA process that
occurs once a round of
development is completed
whereas performance
engineering is an ongoing
process that occurs through all
phases of the development
cycle i.e. from the design phase
to development, to QA.
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 A dedicated performance tester or team
conduct the Performance Testing who has
sound knowledge of performance testing
concept, tool operation, result analysis etc.
A Performance Engineer is a person who
has enough knowledge of application
design, architecture, development, tuning,
performance optimization and bottleneck
root cause investigation and fixing.

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 Create Project

Step 1: Now depending upon the project, we need to

import SOAP/REST protocol. We will create a new SOAP
Project.

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 Step 2:

• We will make use following SOAP request

http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx?WSDL

• Enter the Project Name

• Enter the path of the WSDL request. In this

case http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx?WSDL
• Click OK

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 Step 3:

Upon creating the SOAP project with the above-said

WSDL, we will be able to see that there are two
operations that will be imported into the project.

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 Step 4:

• Expand the first request and double click on the

‘Request1’. It will display the SOAP request in the XML
format.
• Enter the From Currency and To Currency
• Click on the submit button
• Response XML will be displayed right side pane

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 Creating Test Suite :

• Step 1:Within the project, testers can create a test suite by

performing a right click on the root of the project.

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 • Step 2: Specify the name of the Test Case and click 'OK'.

Step 3: The created test case has zero steps as shown

below.

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 Test Steps:

Test Steps are the building blocks of functional tests

in the SoapUi .

Test step Types:

• Test Request
• Groovy Script
• Properties
• Rest Test Request
• Http Test Request
• Jdbc Request
• Mock Response

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 Test Step Insert:

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 Step 2: Enter the step name and click OK

Step 3: Upon clicking 'OK', a dialog pops up to select the

operation to invoke. All the operations are listed, and user can
select the operation that they would like to invoke.

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 Features of Selenium Grid

• Selenium Grid is used to run multiple test scripts at the

same time on multiple machines.
• Parallel execution can be achieved with the help of Hub-
Node architecture.
• Hub can control different scripts on various Browser and
OS on various Nodes.
• Hub and Node are started using:
selenium-service-standalone.jar
• Supports both Selenium RC and Webdriver test.

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 Selenium Grid Architecture

Node1 Windows
IE 8
FF 53
Windows, Linux, Mac, etc. VM2 Safari 6
JSON Wire Over HTTP
Chrome 32

VM1 IE, Chrome Safari, geco driver Servers

DesiredCapabilities:
OS/Browser/Version Node2 Linux
IE 9
VM3 FF 54
HUB Safari 7
Server Chrome 35
IE, Chrome Safari, geco driver Servers
RC or RemoteWebDriver
Code(Java, Perl, Python, JSON Wire Over HTTP
Node3 Mac
C#, Ruby, JavaScript) IE 11
FF 60
VM4 Safari 8
Chrome 38
IE, Chrome Safari, geco driver Servers

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 Birth of Selenium IDE

• Shinya Kasatani of Japan created Selenium IDE.

• IDE is Firefox and Chrome extension that can automate
the browser through a record-and-playback feature.
• He came up with this idea to further increase the speed
in creating test cases.
• He donated Selenium IDE to the Selenium Project
in 2006.

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 Features of Selenium IDE

Create and edit test cases

Create and execute test suites

Debug and enhance test cases

Test cases can be exported to different PL

Enables learning of Selenium script syntax

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 Disadvantages of Selenium IDE

Support Firefox and Chrome browser

Not suitable for dynamic web application

No support for programming logics

Data driven testing not possible

No centralized maintenance of objects/elements

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 Birth of Selenium WebDriver

• Simon Stewart created WebDriver in 2006, when

browsers and web applications were becoming more
powerful and more restrictive with JavaScript programs
like Selenium Core.
• It was the first cross-platform testing framework that
could control the browser from the OS level.

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 Features of Selenium WebDriver

• It supports multiple PL, OS, Browsers.

• Each browser has its own driver on which the application
runs. Selenium webdriver makes direct call to browser.
• WebDriver finds any co-ordinates of any object.
• Mouse movement/action can be controlled.
• Overcomes the limitations of Selenium 1 like file upload,
download, alert/popup & dialogs barrier.

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 Selenium WebDriver Architecture

HTTP Over HTTP Server

Selenium Client
Library Browser Drivers Real Browses
Java ChromeDriver Chrome

Python JSON Wire FirefoxDRiver Firefox

Protocol
Perl IEDriver IE
Over HTTP
C# OperaDriver Opera
Ruby SafariDriver Safari
PHP

HTTP Over HTTP Server

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