AutomationSTAR

Test Automation Conference Europe

Tutorial A

Ramping up Modern Performance Testing

Leandro Melendez

09:00-12:30, Wednesday 9th October

In this tutorial, Leandro will give guidance and explanations for people looking to ramp up or polish their performance testing skills. The scope is especially oriented at modern agile and continuous teams trying to implement continuous performance testing practices.

The tutorial will teach performance assurance principles and modern best practices. This is vital to understand – and stop – doing the traditional approaches, as most of our modern software is being developed in a continuous manner, released to the cloud, and with several services in the back-end.

We must evolve! From basic concepts like correlations, to advanced pipe-lining of performance checks, the tutorial will help you evolve from just load testing, to assure great performance over all the organization!

Outline:

  1. What is (and is not) performance testing? – Whiteboard demo
  2. Performance testing, performance assurance, and load testing. – Whiteboard demo
  3. Differences in the approach to performance on traditional (Waterfall) versus modern (Agile) practices. – Jenkins, LoadRunner, JMeter, k6, unit tests
  4. Best practices for modern performance assurance. – practical exercises including creating a continuous performance framework with diverse tools (JMeter, k6, Jenkins, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana, and more)
  5. Exercises and demos. – using tools such as k6, Grafana, git, and pipelines.

**ATTENDEE REQUIREMENTS**

Please come prepared for the tutorial.

You will need to clone the following repository to your computer–> https://github.com/srperf/perfworkshop/

After that, follow the instructions and get the software listed in the repository. Instructions included.

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What you will Learn

  1. Differentiate performance practices: testing, load, assurance, continuous, etc.
  2. Understand why traditional load testing is not great for agile and continuous
  3. Learn some best practices for continuous performance assurance

Session Details

  • Introductory
  • 3.5 Hours
  • Interactive Tutorial
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Check out Leandro in this short video on his tutorial 'Ramping up Modern Performance Testing' at AutomationSTAR this October

Session Speaker

Leandro Melendez

Performance Advocate - Grafana Labs, Mexico

Leandro is a performance testing advocate with Grafana k6, helping everyone to ramp up on their performance practices. He has over 20 years of experience in IT and the performance testing practice, where he served multiple S&P500 customers all over the USA, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, India, Austria, etc. He is author of the blog Señor Performo (http://www.srperf.com), where he curates a diverse set of learning material for performance testers and engineers together. He has two YouTube channels (https://youtube.com/@srPerfEsp) and (https://youtube.com/@srPerfEng). He also hosts the PerfBytes español Podcast, and co-hosts on the main PerfBytes show since 2018. He is an international public speaker, participating in multiple conferences, events, and webinars; with keynotes, workshops and multiple talks under his belt. Lastly, he is author of "The Hitchhikers Guide To Load Testing Projects", a fun walkthrough that will guide you through the phases or levels of an IT load testing project (https://amzn.to/37wqpyx).