README.md

Performance tests docs 🚀

Collection of Performance Tests related materials

Performance Testing Theory

• Performance Testing vs. Load Testing vs. Stress Testing

• 8 Tips to Decide the Number of Concurrent Users for Your Test

• Are you ready black friday 8 best load testing practices your app or site - quick intro to performance tests

• 8 Load Testing Steps You Must Take Before the UK Elections - short explanation of steps required when working with performance tests.

• A Quick Start Guide To Learning Performance Testing

• Lessons lernt from performance testing 2016 olympics

• Think time in tests

• Making your performance engineering more efficient

  • part 1
  • part 2
  • part 3
  • performance testing rookie mistakes

• Six Design Principles of Continuous Performance Testing

• Kainos ODP - Logging & Performance testing

• A Practical Guide to Performance Testing by Neotys

• Planning for High Concurrency Load Tests How to define concurency in test scripts

• APDEX score guide

Perfrormance Testing in the team

• web performance culture/
• Web Application Performance Checklist
• Top 10 Performance Optimisations
• How we load tested our bank before our £20 million crowdfunding round - Monzo story about creating their own perfromance testing sollution

Collection of materials

• MS Visual Studio - Load Testing resources
• performance testing mindmap + list of resources

Client side perfrormance

• Rendering Metrics
• SpeedCurve blog
• Web berformance budget
• Sitespeed.io - "ueses real browsers, simulating real users connectivity and collect important user centric metrics like Speed Index and First Visual Render"
• PWMetrics - Gather progressive web metrics for a url. CLI & lib
• Treo - Treo is Lighthouse as a Service. It provides regression testing, geographical regions, custom networks, and integrations with GitHub & Slack. Treo is a paid product with plans for solo-developers and teams.
• GTmetrix - how well your site loads
• http://yslow.org/ - analyzes web pages and why they're slow based on Yahoo!'s rules

Results Analysis

• The art of reading performance test charts
• Performance Test Reporting Fundamentals
• JMETER RESULT ANALYSIS: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE - by octoperf
• Dashboard / report analyzer for load testing with JMeter
• 2 Techniques to Get JMeter Test Results in non-GUI mode
• BlazeMeter’s Sense - service for storing and analysing performance test results

Load generation Tools

Jmeter

Tests design

• Meter Ramp-Up - The Ultimate Guide
• Web Testing with JMeter: How To Properly Handle Embedded Resources in HTML Responses

Jmeter Components

• jmeter tutorial on Guru99

• Logs, vars, props JSR223 with Groovy: Variables (Part 2) - Sampler, ctx

• Parameters,Script File

• If controller

• JMeter Plugins

• JMeter – Creating Modular / Reusable Test Scripts

• Creating a New JMeter Test Purely in Java for Java Sampler

• Beanshell vs JSR223 vs Java JMeter Scripting

• JMeter Maven Plugin

• Commercial and Open Source JMeter Plugins

JMeter listeners

• Listeners with Basic Displays
• Listeners that Aggregate Data Samples
• Listeners that Calculate Distribution Metrics
• Listeners that Support Scripting & Enable Test and System Management

Jmeter and CI

• JMeter – Continuous Performance Testing – JMeter + Maven
• Jmeter on docker
• Running JMmeter test - jenkins pipeline tutorial
• Configure Jenkins to Run and Show JMeter Tests

JMeter extensions

• ruby-jmeter - DSL wrapper for JMeter scripts in Ruby

Gatling

• Gatling - Scala
• Gatling introduction
• Practical tutorial on starting with Gatling
• Performance testing with gatling - series of posts including introduction and advanced usage of gatling
• Load testing: Gatling “Tips & Tricks”
• Gatling cheatsheet

Other tools

• wrk - HTTP benchmarking tool capable of generating significant load when run on a single multi-core CPU.

• Taurus

  • gettaurus

• Locust - python

• Artillery - Javascript

• k6 - "A developer-centric load testing tool" - Scripting in Javascript ES2015/ES6

  • https://github.com/loadimpact/postman-to-k6 - convert Postman collections to k6

• PerfCake -

• Yandex.Tank - extensible open source load testing tool for linux users. Written in python

Tools Comparisons

• Gatling vs Jmeter
  • abstracta
  • octoperf
• Locust vs Jmeter
• The Grinder vs Gatling vs Tsung vs JMeter
• open source performance testing tools
• Performance: which testing tool and why?
• open source load testing tool review - by loadinpact
• Open Source Load Testing Tool Review - Benchmarks- by loadinpact
• Open Source Load Testing Tool Benchmarks V2 - by loadinpact
  • Spreadsheets with results -JMeter vs Neoload vs HP Load Runner

Monitoring

• How to Monitor Your Server Health & Performance During a JMeter Load Test

• https://jmeter-plugins.org/wiki/PerfMon/

• Cassandra performance monitoring

• Measure Anything, Measure Everything

• Actionable Metrics - Enabling Decision-Making in Netflix’s Decentralized Environment(video+slides)

• Prometheus: Monitoring at SoundCloud

• nmon - performance Monitor for Linux

• Overload𝛃 – performance analytics server

• Service Monitoring Library\

• influxdata time-series-platform- The Open Source Time Series Platform provides services and functionality to accumulate, analyze, and act on time series data. Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor; collectively called the TICK Stack.

• serputko/performance-testing-framework - Framework allows to perform load testing with Apache Jmeter, view application/server metrics in real-time with Grafana, analyze errors cause with detailed traces for failed requests, compare different test runs in scripted dashboard and perform frontend performance testing with sitespeed.io+webpagetest

Java Profilers

• A Guide to Java Profilers
• Top 5 Java Profilers Revealed: Real world data with VisualVM, JProfiler, Java Mission Control, YourKit and Custom tooling
• List of Java Profilers: 3 Different Types and Why You Need All of Them

Devops Tools

• Blazemeter's The Ultimate DevOps Tools Ecosystem Tutorial

SQL

• [https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/preface] - In depth description of SQL Data Bases with impact on performance

Library

Books 📖

Online

• Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications

Paperback

• Java Performance
  • review
• High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
  • companion site for the book
• Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers
  • companion site for the book

White Papers 📄

• How to Ensure Your Website or Mobile App Won’t Fail on PEAK DAYS
• How Shift-Left Performance Testing from BlazeMeter Enables Substantial Cost Savings
• Load Testing & APM: A Guide to Accelerating Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting
• Continuous Testing In Practice - Completing the Continuous Delivery Process

Webinars 🗃

• 3 Keys to Performance Testing at the Speed of Agile by Neotys
  • slides deck

Blogs 📝

• Blazemeter
• Xceptance
• octoperf
• performance wisdom
• perfmatrix
• Señor Performo

Videos 📺

• Blazemeter resources
• Dynatrace Online Performance Clinic
  • Dynatrace Performance Clinic on YouTube
• MIT Video Lectures

Podcasts 📢

• PurePerformance on Dynatrace
  • PurePerformance - hosted on spreaker
• PurePerformance Cafes - short interviews with practitioners and thought leaders from around the globe
• PerfBytes
  • PerfBytes- PerfBytes hosted on spreaker
  • News of The Damned - analysis on globally crashing websites and system failures.Part of PerfBytes - hosted on spreaker.
• the path to Performance

Workshops 🎓

• How To Build A Performance Testing Stack From Scratch

TOVERIFY

DB and OS performance blogs and tools

• https://www.percona.com/blog/
• https://www.robustperception.io/blog/
• https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/
• http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/index.html
• https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench
• https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/wiki
• http://www.hammerdb.com/about.html