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Introduction to Performance Testing

  • The performance testing life cycle.
  • Interpreting performance test results.

Understanding Various Architectures and Application Models

  • Two-tier and three-tier architectures.
  • N-tier architectures.
  • Middleware-based architectures (e.g., MQ, Web Services).

Key Technologies

  • Fundamental UNIX commands (e.g., grep, find, vi editor).
  • Basic Oracle and SQL concepts (queries, tables, triggers, etc.).
  • Core concepts of C and Java.

Detailed Analysis and Monitoring Concepts/Tools

  • Hardware Monitoring (Windows - Perfmon, UNIX - nmon, vmstat)
    • Run queue (average processor queue length).
    • Network I/O.
    • Disk I/O.
    • Memory metrics (available, used, paging space, filesystem cache, etc.).
    • CPU metrics (available, virtual, online, entitled, etc.).
  • Web Server and Application Server Monitoring
    • JVM (Java Heap) analysis, including heap dumps.
    • Connection pools.
    • Thread pools.
  • Familiarity with various monitoring tools such as CA Wily Introscope and IBM Tivoli.
  • Database Monitoring
    • Basic query tuning.
    • SQL tracing.
    • AWR or Statspack analysis.
    • Query plan analysis.
  • Understanding bandwidth and FTP.
  • Network monitoring using HTTPWatch or Fiddler.

Requirements

  • Solid understanding of databases such as Oracle.
  • Familiarity with application containers like WebSphere or WebLogic, among others.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Java.
  • Knowledge of performance testing methodologies.
  • Competence in SQL.
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