QW2002 Paper W3 Dr. Subraya BM (Infosys Technologies Ltd) Web Performance Testing & Issues

Key Points

• How to prepare for the Performance Testing? : Planning phase
• How to conduct Performance Testing? : Test Execution phase
• How to analyze the results and identify the bottlenecks? : Post-test phase

Presentation Abstract

Performance problems related to Web applications are known to all organizations. Many companies have developed or integrated their critical applications using Web Technologies. As these applications become more complex, testing of such applications is critical, particularly from the standpoint of performance. Performance depends, among other things, upon the load on the system at peak time under varying conditions. To test such complex applications requires proper planning, which includes business benchmarking and profiling, setting up environment and testing process. Performance testing is normally conducted in a simulated environment with the help of performance testing tools. Such testing process will have many practical issues to address. This tutorial provides an in-depth study of how to plan and conduct performance testing in an automated environment. Also, the tutorial provides how to analyse the performance results to find the bottlenecks and provide remedies through a case study.

About the Author

Dr. Subraya B.M. currently working as Senior Principal Consultant to Education and Research Department of Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India. Before he comes to Infosys, he was working as a Professor and head of Computer Centre, at S.J. College of Engineering, an affiliated college of University of Mysore, a reputed engineering college in southern part of India, since more than 20 years.

Dr. Subraya holds PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi from Computer Science & Engineering Department, in the area of Testing and Verification. He has guided many projects at graduate and under graduate level. His area of interest includes Software Engineering, Operating System and Distributed databases.

He is currently responsible for managing the Web Performance Testing Centre of the Organization. He has offered tutorials on Web Performance Testing in many pre-conference Tutorials including QAI, SEPG, and PSQT international Conferences. He has published many papers in international conferences in the area of Performance Testing of Web applications.