Performance Testing

  • Recently I have seen a lot of advertisements for HDFC’s 40% faster ATMs on television and posters.  As a performance tester, I was interested in knowing more. I am an HDFC customer, so I observed  these advertisements predominantly displayed at the Bank’s ATMs. The other day while going for office, I saw a big hoarding mentioning

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  • The title of the blog Web Performance Matters is a very tricky one. When I read the title, it conveyed two meanings to me. First that this blog deals with ‘matters related to web performance’ (more of a spoken English usage). Second that the performance factor of a web site is of utmost importance, it

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  • When we talk about LoadRunner, we generally hear the term Correlation (which is nothing but capturing dynamic data from the server response to be used as input in further requests). LoadRunner is good at auto-correlation capabilities, but sometimes we come across situations, where only your scripting capabilities and the correct use of some advanced features

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  • An essential part of the performance testing projects is developing scripts which simulate the user actions (VUser scripts in LoadRunner). In the scripting phase, an important part is debugging of the scripts in case you run into some issues. Mostly people talk about enabling the Extended Log feature in the Run-time Settings GUI, and then

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