Performance tests are instrumental in keeping a check on product quality in terms of reliability and scalability. One essential area of performance measurements is application launch time which is the time elapsed from the operation which triggers the launch (double-click/command-line etc.) and the moment at which the application becomes responsive. This measurement would be useful in atleast two contexts:
- Measurement of launch time of the application under test
- Measurement of launch time of applications on a system with and without your software installed (e.g. for AV products)
The scenarios could fall under the category of performance testing or benchmarking based on whether you are conducting the test to:
- measure the time to launch (and compare against the performance criterion in requirements, if you are lucky!)
- measure and compare against the previous version of the product
- measure and compare against a competitor product
Hello Rahul and Chetan,
I am looking for Software testing freelancing projects. Up till now have contacted some small scale companies but no favorable response so far.
Could you please suggest, how one should go if want to set own Quality Assurance Consulting
Thanks,
Dinesh Deshpande
Hi Dinesh,
Welcome to Testing Perspective!
Neither I nor Chetan has worked as a freelancer or set up a consulting.
I suggest that you follow this up with Pradeep Soundararajan. He has got experience in this area and might be able to help you out. He also posted recently on the subject:
http://testertested.blogspot.com/2010/07/tour-of-being-independent-test.html
Regards,
Rahul
hi Rahul,
I wanted to go for the Performance testing of 250 concurrent users, who will login at the same time and view some data simultaneously. I have recorded script with one login and passowrd but wanted to do the same simultaneously for 250 user.
Will it be possible with imacro? and can i please suggest me.
Padmaja
As mentioned at this link: http://www.iopus.com/imacros/web-testing.htm, imacros does support multi-threading.
But for a serious performance testing effort, I’d suggest you to evaluate other tools like JMeter, PyLot etc for the purpose which are free tools.