This training is for:

Quality assurance professionals who are currently perform backend testing and familiar with RestAPI anatomy and would like to dive into most profitable carrier in testing fields -- performance, load, stress testing.  

What tools/library we will use?

Postman, AWS, Jmeter, AB(apache bench), CURL

Course Syllabus

• Go over Postman collection for OrderMe app deployed to AWS
• Intro to AWS infrastructure and monitoring tools 
• Intro to performance testing with JMeter 
  • Load backend and analyze report
  • Monitoring tools(CloudWatch/NewRelic/DataDog)

• Jmeter in depth
• Perform load, stress, and performance tests and discuss difference between all these type of backend testing
• Potential improvements and optimizations for scaling backend infrastructure 

Course outline:

• Introduction to performance/stress/load testing(P/S/L)
• Load testing to detect performance issues under heavy loads 
• Stress testing to check the system behavior under high traffic and data processing
• Endurance testing to verify the system capacities to handle certain load during a long time
• Spike testing to monitor the system behavior under sudden spikes
• Scalability testing to verify the system capacities to handle the planned load increase

P/S/L testing process:

• Understanding how P/S/L testing fits the development process
• Approaches to the P/S/L testing process
• Costs of P/S/L testing

Infrastructure and Architecture:

• What should be part of the test?
• Target platform and systems
• Network configuration
• Scalability and extrapolation

Designing the Test:

• Defining the workload
• Transactions to be simulated
• Analyze factors affecting the test
• Exercise: Selecting types of Tests to Run
• Measurements(Response times, resource usage, latency etc.)

Test Preparation:

• Setup the test infrastructure/architecture
• Build test scripts and data
• Setup the tools

Test Execution/Reporting:

• Setup test execution
• Run tests and collect reports 
• Conclusions and recommendations
• Assist the technical team after tuning and Debugging
• Reporting P/S/L Test Results