• What is Performance Testing Benefits of Performance Testing
• Performance Testing phases / Life Cycle
• Types of Performance Testing (Load, Stress, Volume, Endurance, Baseline, Benchmark etc)
• Introduction about various Performances Testing tools and scripting language info
• Identifying the business scenarios for Performance Testing
• Think time, rendezvous point, IP Spoofing, Denial of Services Attack
• Workload Characterization

• LoadRunner architecture
• Where to install LoadRunner components
• Identify hardware and software needed for installation
• Installing Loadrunner samples

• Introduction to VUSER Concept:
  • Definition of Vuser
  • Why VUGEN is Used
  • Features of VUGEN
  • VUSER TYPES
• Streamlining Recording:
  • Settings to be done before recording
  • Modes of recording
  • Choosing the right protocol
  • Types of protocol loadrunner supports
  • Single and Multiple protocols
  • When and how to use more than one Action
  • Deleting Action
• First touch to VUGEN:
  • Starting VUGEN
  • Understanding VUGEN Environment Options
  • Choosing the right protocol
• Recording Script using VUGEN:
  • VUSER Script sections (Init, Action and end)
  • Creating New Virtual VUSER script
  • Adding and removing protocols
  • Choosing New Virtual user category
  • Begin Recording on your application
  • Ending and Saving a recording session
  • Running the Created Script
• Introduction to Output window in VUGEN:
  • Replay Log
  • Recording Log
  • Generation Log
  • Correlation Results
• Understanding the VUSER script:
  • Viewing and modifying VUSER scripts
  • Understanding the functions generated in the code
  • Getting Help on functions
  • Workflow Wizard
  • Walkthrough on few Loadrunner functions
  • Recap of Steps for creating Vuser Scripts
• Actions in depth:
  • When and how to use more than one Action
  • Deleting Actions
  • Rename actions
  • Import Action into Vuser
• Introduction to VUGEN parameters:
  • Definition of parameter
  • Why parameterization is required
  • Parameters Limitations
  • Creating Parameters
  • Types of parameters
  • Using Existing Parameters
  • Using Parameter List
  • Parameterization options
• File and table type parameters:
  • Creating data files
  • Properties of file type parameters
  • properties of table type parameters
• Setting Parameters properties:
  • Introduction to setting parameter properties
  • Setting properties for internal data parameter types
  • Setting properties for user defined functions
  • Choosing parameter formats
• Data Assignment methods:
  • Sequential
  • Random
  • Unique
• Data Update Modes:
  • Each Occurrence
  • Each Iteration
  • Once
• Configuring Run time settings:
  • About Run time settings
  • Configuring run time settings
  • pacing run time settings
  • Configuring Log run time settings
  • Configuring Think time settings
• Correlations:
  • Introduction to correlations
  • Auto Correlation
  • Wdiff Utility
  • Manual Correlation
• Introduction to Transactions:
  • What are transactions
  • Why we need transactions
  • How to insert transactions in the script
• Introduction to content check:
  • Why we need Content checks
  • How to use the inbuilt content checks
  • How to build your own content checks

• Introduction to controller:
  • Opening controller
  • Why we need controller
  • Significance of controller
  • Features on controller
• Loadrunner Testing Process:
  • Planning the test
  • Creating Vuser Script
  • Creating the scenario
  • Running the scenario
  • Monitoring the scenario
  • Analyzing the scenario
• Designing a scenario:
  • Creating a scenario
  • Run scenario with sample Vuser load
• Scenario types:
  • Manual Scenario
  • Goal Oriented scenario
• Introduction to Load generators:
  • What is load generator
  • Why we need load generators
• Kinds of Scheduling Scenarios:
  • Schedule by scenario
  • Schedule by group
• Scheduling scenarios:
  • About Scheduling scenarios
  • Delaying the start of scenarios
  • Scheduling a scenario
  • Scheduling Vuser groups
  • Adding Vuser to Scheduled scenarios
• Creating and running a manual scenario:
  • Creating Vuser groups
  • Configuring Vusers in Vuser group.
  • Configuring Vuser run time settings
  • Configuring scripts
  • Setting time out intervals
  • Configuring Scenario run time settings
  • Setting the run time file location
  • Specifying results location
  • Collating results
• Running scenarios and controlling Vusers:
  • Running entire scenario
  • Controlling Vuser groups
  • Controlling individual Vusers
  • Manually adding Vuser to running scenario
  • Manually adding Vuser to Rendezvous
• Viewing Vusers during executions:
  • About viewing vusers during executions
  • Monitoring Vuser status
  • Viewing the output window
  • Viewing Vuser script log
  • Logging execution notes
• Creating Goal Oriented scenario
  • About Planning goal oriented scenario
  • Understanding goal oriented scenario design tab
  • Defining scenario goals
  • Assigning properties to scripts
  • Configuring scripts

The importance of a test policy

• About Online Monitoring
• Setting up the Monitoring environment
• Monitor types
• Choosing Monitors and measurements in the controller
• Starting the monitors in the controller
• Opening online monitor graphs in the controller
• Setting monitor options

• Introduction to Analysis