Performance Testing with LoadRunner with AppDynamics, API, Cloud Apps & LRE – Learn the Fundamentals with Live Project simulation

(Webservices, LRE)

– LIVE Sessions

Micro Focus is now OpenText

Isha presents an Extensive and highly interactive “Performance Testing Using LoadRunner” by our industry expert with 10+ years of hands-on experience. Learn all the basic and advanced performance testing concepts with hands-on practical examples. The course syllabus is designed by considering the current job market trends and industry requirements.

Disclaimer: “Isha Training Solutions is not affiliated with, sponsored or authorized by Micro Focus”

About the Instructor :

kirthika has 10+ rich experience in handling performance testing projects.

She has handled multiple training batches over the last 3 to 4 years.

She has rich experience in tools like Load Runner, Selenium, UFT SOAP UI.

Successfully trained 300+ employees across 50+ corporate giants & is still counting

Real time experience in delivering online, recorded, on-demand & classroom/live training programs, with hands-on experience on multiple domains/verticals

Sample Videos:

Performance Testing & OpenText LoadRunner with AppDynamics, API, Cloud Apps & LRE – Learn the Fundamentals with Live Project simulation -Live Training Demo Video:

Performance Testing & OpenText LoadRunner with AppDynamics, API, Cloud Apps & LRE – Learn the Fundamentals with Live Project simulation -Live Training Day 1 Video:

Live Sessions Price:

Offer price after discount is 3~~00 USD 259 ~~USD~~~~ 119 USD Or ~~13000 INR~~ ~~12900 INR~~ 8900 Rupees.

Enroll For Free Demo

Free Day 1 Session:

28th February @ 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM (IST)(Indian Timings)

27th February @ 9 PM – 10 PM (EST) (U.S Timings)

28th February @ 2 AM – 3 AM (BST) (UK Timings)

Class Schedule:

For Participants in India: Monday to Friday @ 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM (IST)

For Participants in the US: Sunday to Thursday 9 PM – 10 PM (EST)

For Participants in the UK: Monday to Friday 2 AM – 3 AM (BST)

What student’s have to say about kirthika:

This course is a great way to start into Performance Testing path as it teaches from the very beginning. – Showrya

I have been able to learn the difference between Functional testing and Non-Functional testing. – Vimala

Elaborately explaining the concepts with the real time examples. – Chanj

yes, loved the way how lecturer explains point to point. – Deekhit

A good explanation for software testing – Jhon

The course inclusive of the trainer was excellent. Lots of skills obtained and will definitely recommend this course to my colleagues at work. – Shaila

Very detailed explanation in every section of the course. This Tutorial is Extremely helpful for individuals who are interested in learning Performance testing. – Wamen

What will I Learn by end of this course?

By end of the course you will learn to develop a workable strategy for load testing of an enterprise system and be ready to handle any performance testing project using LoadRunner tool
Even if you are using any other performance testing tool, this course will provide you core guidelines for utilizing it for maximum benefits in less time.
Learners will get confidence in handling performance testing projects and will be able to do scripting/execution/analysis/end to end workflow.

Salient Features

35+ hours of On-Demand videos.
Live Project after the course
Course Completion Certificate
Frequently asked Interview questions are covered as part of the course.

Who can enroll for this course?

Beginners to IT Industry or those who want to make their career in performance testing.
For any fresher or software professional.
Ideal for Manual testers, Automation Testers, Business Analyst, QA Lead or any software professional.
Completely new to software industry and want to get a sneak peek into Software Tools

Course syllabus:

Performance Testing Concepts & NFR
- Is performance testing still required in the current age of cloud? How relevant is performance Testing
- Performance, Scalability & Reliability – Load Vs Stress Vs Endurance
- Non Functional Requirements & Work Load analysis
- Key Terminologies & Terms – SLA, 95th percentile, Real world simulation, Concurrency, Think time, Pacing

OpenText – LoadRunner Installation & Setup
- Loadrunner download, Components of loadrunner – vugen/Controller/load generator/analyzer, Controller vs LRE

Script Development & Enhancements & debugging
- Overview of Vugen
- Recording Of user journey/flows using vugen
- Various recording options, frequent issues w.r.t recording
- Script comparator using text compare
- Usage of dev tools & fiddler
- Automating the input variables using Parameters – sequential/random/unique & other options
  - Types of Parameterization – Sequential/unique/random
  - Parameter types – Random number , date time, vuserid, filetype
- Debug options , generation logs / replay logs
- Automating the dynamic values using correlation – web reg save param / ordinals and dynamic left/right boundaries, regular expression
  - Usage of web reg save param – savelen, ordinals
  - Regex functions
  - How to use generation log/snapshots for correlation
  - Usage of auto correlation
- Script Validation & Error Handling; Important lr and web functions
  - Web reg find – For page validation
  - Web reg save param for response validation
  - Status code validation – 200, 400, 500
  - Commonly used lr and web functions – lr abort, lr continue on error, lrerror message, lr eval string
  - Web set max length, web submit data/form, webgetint, web set user, web add header
- Scripting standards and best practice
  - Boiler Plate
  - Comments
  - Transaction markers
  - parameter/correlation naming convention
- Various RunTime Settings & other options in Vugen
  - Multiple actions & percentage distribution
  - Pacing
  - Think time
  - Speed/browser simulation
  - Proxy settings

Execution – Controller / LRE
- Basic Schedule / Goal Oriented schedule
- Refreshing run time settings/script from controller
- Creating LoadRunner scenarios – smoke , Load & Stepup or Scalability scenarios
- LRE/Controller various settings & Loadgenerator configuration
- Iteration Based / Duration based executions
- View logs , add/stop users , debugging issues during execution

Live Project Simulation
- Project KickOff & Sprint Planning – Jira & Confluence
- Overview of application under test – Functional walkthrough
- Nonfunctional requirement analysis
- Document the test plan & NFR in confluence page
- Create performance testing related user stories in Jira
- Script development & enhancements for the business critical user journeys
- Validate monitoring setup – Grafana & Appdynamics
- Execute Smoke tests
- Execute Load Tests & live monitoring of the tests
- Analysis – Loadrunner summary report , response time hits/second, throughput, creating /merging charts, web page diagnostics
- Prepare detailed report in confluence and share the observations/analysis to development team
- Executive summary reports in confluence
- Analysis
  - Summary Report
  - 90th Percentile
  - Transactions summary
  - HTTP response codes
  - Throughput vs Hits per second
  - Users vs Hits per second
  - Throughput vs Response Time
  - Merging Graphs
  - Generating reports
- Prepare detailed report in confluence and share the observations/analysis with development team
- Executive summary reports in confluence

Key functions /Libraries that are used in most of the projects
- String handling functions – strcpy, strcat, strlen lr eval string, atoi
- File handling functions – fopen, fprintf, fclose, file operating mode
- Loop/Condition statements – ifelse , conditional statements

LoadRunner Enterprise (10+ hours Self-paced videos will be provided):

Performance Testing Overview with Loadrunner Family products:

LoadRunner Vs LRE
LRE Administration:
- Describe the basic LRE architecture and functionality
- Manage user accounts
- Assign user privileges
- Project Creation /
- User Creation and Management
- System Health check of LRE
- Timeslot Management
- Host Management
- License Reports
- Oversee server resources

New Features in LRE
- Introduce the LoadRunner family
- Describe the new features in LoadRunner Enterprise

LRE Project overview
- Scripts Management
- Hosts Management
- Timeslot Booking

Planning an effective Load Test in LRE
- Scenario Design
  - Workload/Schedule types
    - Basic / Real World
    - By Test / By Group
- Configure the Run time settings
- Define the SLA’s
- Scenario Execution
- Monitor the Performance Testing Execution flow
- Monitor the Performance test Run / Load Test Graphs

Performance Test Results / Analysis
- Collate and analyze the load test data
- Generate reports and graphs for a test set
- Download the load test results files
- Results Generation

LRE Network Virtualization scenarios & Server monitoring concepts
- Network Virtualization intro and benefits
- How to create Network Virtualization scenarios
- How to monitor Network Virtualization graphs
- How to analyze Tests results with Network Virtualization

Service Virtualization Overview & Creation of new virtual services
Using Virtual Service requests in script and running a load test
Miscellaneous concepts

API (WebServices) Performance Testing Using LoadRunner Training (SOAP & RESTful) (8+ hours Self-paced videos will be provided):

Introduction to Web Services
- What is Web Service?
- Web Services Demo
- Purpose of Web Services
- Interoperability of Web Services
- Web Applications where Web Services are used.
- Handout / Course Material for the course
- Types of Web Services
- Introduction to SOAP WS
- What is SOAP Protocol?
- UDDI
- Introduction to RESTful Web Services
- Difference Between SOAP WS and RESTful WS

SOAP Web Services
- Introduction to SOAPUI Tool
- Installation of SOAPUI Tool
- Using SOAPUI Tool

Different Ways of Creating VuGen Scripts for SOAP WS
- Different Ways of Creating Script Via VuGen

Creating SOAP WS scripts Using HTTP/HTML Protocol
- Create Script Using Web_custom_Request
- Web_custom_Request – Fix Compilation Errors
- Web_custom_Request – Fix Execution Errors
- Web_custom_Request – Execution
- Creating VuGen Script Via Recording
- SOAP VuGen Scripts – Enhancements
- Transaction Points
- CheckPoints -Introduction
- Insert CheckPoints
- Execute Script after inserting CheckPoints
- CheckPoints – Misc Information
- ErrorHandling 1
- ErrorHandling 2

SOAP VuGen Scripts -Parameterization – Further Enhancements
- Why Parameterization?
- What is Parameterization?
- Implementing Parameterization?
- Script Execution
- Where can we implement Parameterization

SOAP VuGen Scripts -Correlation- Further Enhancements
- Sample SOAP Used for Correlation Demonstration
- Why Correlation?
- Implementing Correlation
- Script Execution with Correlation
- Final Script with all the enhancements – Part1
- Final Script with all the enhancements – Part2
- Correlation to Capture any Value
- Correlation to Capture Multiple Values
- Explore Correlation arguments

Creating SOAP WS scripts Via Web Services Protocol
- All Recording Options for SOAP using Web Services Protocol
- Sample Projects Walk-thru
- Creating VuGen script using “Import WSDL”
- Execute Script
- Installation of WSE2 & WSE3 Patches
- Output Arguments 1
- Output Arguments 2
- Output Arguments 3

WebServices Protocol — Misc Enhancements
- Enhancements -Inserting Transactions
- Enhancements -Parametrization
- Enhancements -ThinkTime

WebServices Protocol — Enhancements – Error Handling
- LR_XML_FIND LR Function
- Error_Handling using LR_XML_FIND
- Parameterization & LR_XML_FIND

WebServices Protocol — Enhancements – Handling Dynamic Values
- How to Handle Dynamic Values in web services protocol
- Input and output arguments
- lr_xml_get_values
- lr_xml_get_values – SelectALL Argument
- lr_xml_extract
- Final Professional script

SOAP – WebServices Protocol — Other Options for creating scripts
- Via Recording
- Via Importing SOAP File

RESTful Web Services
- RESTful WebServices – Introduction
- POSTMAN Tool – Installation
- Sample RESTful Web Service – Part1
- Access Rest Services from POSTMAN
- VUGEN Script for GET Request
- VUGEN Script for POST Request
- VUGEN Script for PUT Request
- RESTful WS — Enhancements
- RESTful WS — Parameterization- Part1
- RESTful WS — Parameterization- Part2
- RESTful WS — Correlation

- Misc Section – C Programming
  - Introduction
  - DataType – Integer – Part1
  - DataType – Integer – Part2
  - DataType – String
  - LR Parameter
  - Conversions – Part1
  - Conversions – Part2
  - Conversions – Part3