Performance Testing Must-have skills series

Module 1: Software Testing

What is Testing?
What is Software?
Types of Softwares
What is Software Testing?
Why do we need to do Testing?
Why the Software has issues?
Benefits of Software Testing
Types of Software Testing
Functional Vs Non-Functional Testing
How testing will be conducted?
Testing phases

Module 2: SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Concepts

What is SDLC?
SDLC Benefits
SDLC Phases
SDLC models

Module 3: Server Architecture Basics

Why is it important to learn?
What is a Server?
Server Types
Physical vs Virtual vs Containers
What is Architecture?
What is Software Architecture?
Application Layers
- Presentation Layer
- Business Logic Layer
- Data Layer
Software Architecture Patterns
- Monolithic Architecture
- Multitier Architecture
- Microservices Architecture
- Event-driven Architecture
- Serverless Archietcture
Know your servers
- Hardware
- Software
Environments
- Development Environment
- Testing Environment
- Preprod / Staging Environment
- Production Environment
What is a Protocol?
- Communication Protocols
- Management Protocols
- Security Protocols
Other Architecture Components
- CDN (Content Delivery Network)
- Proxy
- Firewall
- Load Balancer
URL and its components

Module 4: Performance Testing Core Concepts

What is Performance Testing?
Why do we need it?
When do we need to do it?
Performance Testing Benefits
Can we do it manually?
What is an Entry & Exit Crtiera?
What is a deliverable?
Performance Testing Life Cycle(PTLC)
Performance Testing Phases and important activities
What is SLA?
What is a Requirement?
Performance Testing NFRs
What requirements should we gather?
Requirements gathering challenges
How to choose the right scenarios for performance testing?
Workload model
- New Applications
- Existing Applications
Performance Testing Types
- Sanity / Dry run
- Load test
- Endurance / Soak test
- Stress test
- Spike test
- Scalability test
- Volume test
Baseline vs Benchmark tests
How to choose right type of test?
Types of Performance Metrics
Performance Testing vs Performance Engineering
Little's Law
Common Terminology
- Virtual Users
- Simultaneous Users
- Concurrent Users
- Think Time
- Iteration
- Pacing
- Response Time
- Hits
- Throughput
- Bottleneck
Common asked Interview questions

Module 5: Programming Language Concepts

Is the Programming knowledge required for Performance Testing?
Introduction to Apache Groovy
- Why Groovy?
- Features of Grovvy
Why do we need to learn Groovy
How to setup Groovy
- macOs
- Windows
IDEs Integration with Groovy
- VS Code
First Program - Welcome to Groovy
Comments
Keywords
Variables
Data Types
Operators
Conditional Structures
Looping Structures
Exception Handling Structures
Methods
Collections
- Lists
- Maps
- Ranges
OOP Basics
File I/O Operations (Read & Write)
Regular Expressions
Closures

Module 6: Performance Testing Tools

How to choose the right testing tool ?
Popular performance tools available in the Industry
High-level components of any performance testing tool
Introduction to JMeter and Its features
Difference between JMeter with other Performance testing tools
Pre-requisites for JMeter Installation
JMeter Installation
JMeter software folder structure
How to launch JMeter in GUI and Non-GUI Mode and Command-line mode
JMeter User Interaface Quick Tour
Overview of JMeter elements
- Test Plan
- Thread Group
- Samplers
- Config
- Controller
- Assertions
- Timers
- Listeners
Scoping Rules & Execution Order
JMeter Plugin Manager
How to record script in JMeter?
- HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder
- Badboy (Deprecated)
- Blazemeter Chrome Extension
Script Enhancement Concepts
- Parameterization
- Correlation
JMeter Functions
Modularization
API Performance Testing
Scripting Best Practices
Test Execution & Reporting Basics
Distributed Testing
JMeter + InfluxDB + Grafana Integration
JMeter + Jenkins Integration
Misc JMeter concepts
- Throughput Controlling Elements
- Types of Thread Groups
- JSR223 + Groovy Custom Code Examples
- Challenges
- Interview Questions

Module 7: Monitoring tools

Introduction to Performance Monitoring
- What, Why, Where and How ?
- What is a metric?
- Monitoring Areas
  - Server Health
  - Application Helath
- Client Side Vs Server Side Metrics
- KPIs
Native Monitoring tools
- Windows - Perfmon
- Linux - TOP / SAR / VMSTAT
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- What is APM?
- Why it is important?
- APM Core features
- Beneftis of APM
- How to choose the right tool?
- APM vs Observability
- Dynatrace
  - What is Dynatrace?
  - What can you do with Dynatrace?
  - Why do many people love Dynatrace?
  - Components
  - Deployment models
  - Types of Dynatrace Users
  - Important terminology
  - How to setup Dynatrace?
    - Demo Application Installation
    - Creating a Free trial account
    - OneAgent Installation
  - Dynatrace User Interface Navigation
  - Dynatrace Important features Deep Dive
    - Hosts
    - Front end
    - Services
    - Distributed Traces
    - Multidimensional Analysis
    - Session Segmentation
  - Dashboard creation
  - Dyantrace Jmeter Integration
  - Load Test Analysis Quick Tips

Module 8: Documentation tools

Introduction to Microsoft Office
Different Components of MS Office
Word
- Creating the Documents
- Editing the Documents
Excel
- Bulit-in Functions
- Creating Reports
Introduction to Confluence