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