This page contains links to articles, whitepapers, PowerPoint's, Word Documents and PDF files all dealing with load testing, stress testing, and capacity planning.

Performance Testing Citrix Applications With LoadRunner - A whitepaper from Loadtester Inc. In this paper, Tim Chase discusses best practices for load testing Citrix applications with LoadRunner based on years of experience. PDF Format.

Centralized Application Performance Testing - A whitepaper from Loadtester Inc. This paper discusses the problems large IT organizations face and how to mature through the Mercury Maturity Model. Learn how Loadtester has helped other companies do this, and how we can help you. PDF Format.

Building A Performance Center of Excellence - Scott Moore's Mercury World 2004 presentation. PDF Format.

Interpreting LoadRunner Analysis Graphs - Are you verifying your test results in LoadRunner? Need to get the most out of the time-based graphs? Read this document from SQC Technology. PDF Format.

LoadRunner Winsock Tutorial - How to correlate values using the winsock protocol in LoadRunner. PDF Format.

SQL Server 2000 Performance Counters - What to watch and what they mean. From Microsoft.

LoadRunner/Citrix Tips and Tricks - Lessons learned from performance testing a global product deployed via Citrix. From the QA team at Willis.

Pictures from the 2003 Mercury Worldwide User Conference 10/6-10/11 - Enjoy the photos of the Mercury conference and the House of Blues event.

How to Performance Test .NET and .NET Web Services with LoadRunner (Orasi Software) - This PowerPoint was originally presented to the Atlanta Mercury Users Group in February of 2003. Caleb Billingsley of Orasi Software in Atlanta goes over some of the challenges for load testing software and how to use LoadRunner to overcome them. He also covers using Mercury Interactive's Visual Studio .Net add-on tool.

Oracle Performance Tuning Methodology - A whitepaper by Azeem Mohamed at Quest Software which outlines the "Detect, Diagnose, and Resolve" methodology as it applies to tuning Oracle databases.

ActiveTune and Protune by David Torrisi - This powerpoint presentation by David Torrisi (Mercury Interactive's ActiveTune Sr. Manager US East) gives an overview of the ActiveTune and ProTune technologies, and the various phases involved in tuning applications using Mercury Tuning In Production methodology.

ADTest tool manual by Microsoft Enterprise Services - ADTest is an Active Directory load-generation tool. It allows you to simulate client transactions on the host server. By varying client load, you can relate the transaction rate to resource utilization on the server and get some idea about the requirements for your environment. This paper is meant to help you prepare for a fairly comprehensive server-sizing and capacity-planning effort for general sizing, benchmarking, or deployment recommendations for Active Directory.

Newest Trends in IT Application Integrity - Newport Group has put out a nice whitepaper on how companies have changed the way they feel about performance since 1999. Companies are paying more attention to the performance of applications now that they have to do more with less.

Critical Success Factors for Load Test Projects - A short, and to-the-point whitepaper from PowerTest which explains what needs to happen to enjoy a smooth load testing project. It covers the planning phase, the people that should be involved, the skill sets needed, and more.

Enterprise Testing: The Wireless World by Scott Moore -This was presented at the 2001 Mercury Users Conference. It contains information about new wireless technologies and how it affects those in the testing profession. The author discusses the history of wireless, the predicted growth of the market, and the current state of the technology from a Q4 2001 perspective. Geared towards an audience of Mercury Interactive users, it describes how to approach the technology using Mercury products. This is a fairly large file (over 2 MEGS), so broadband connections are recommended. You may also want the extensive notes of the presentation. Get them by clicking HERE.

Solving Data Issues with VTS: Otto Strickland of Zonetek shows you some techniques (with ample code) on how to use Virtual Table Server to solve data issues you might run into when using Mercury's LoadRunner. He list the advantages and disadvantages of each technique. This is for advanced LoadRunner studies.