Performance Testing – Why and How

Abstract: What happens when you have distributed load and performance testing teams? Even in your own Application Delivery Teams, there is a lack of collaboration. You lack standards, methodologies and resource and asset sharing. Performance Testing solution allows for distributed load and performance testing teams to work in a collaborative fashion sharing load testing assets and resources. HP addresses this with its suite of performance testing solutions LoadRunner, Performance Center and Diagnostics.
HP LoadRunner and Performance Center are industry standard performance testing solutions and the uncontested leaders in this space holding 77% of the market share. HP LoadRunner and Performance Center support a wide range of protocols including the latest technologies like Web Services, AMF3, AJAX and FLASH. Both these solutions come with monitoring capabilities covering the most commonly used web servers, application servers, middleware, databases and also the network layer.

HP LoadRunner and Performance Center both integrate with HP Diagnostics to collect the method/SQL level metrics to break down the transaction times by various layers in the application/database tiers to pinpoint the performance bottlenecks quickly and accurately.


Profile: Sudheer Parpatakam has 10+ years of experience in Software Industry with more than 8 years of experience in Software Testing solutions. Started at Mercury US as a Support Engineer and later on moved to consulting for Mercury Performance Testing solutions LoadRunner and Performance Center.

Later moved to Mercury India as a professional services consultant lead working on performance testing solutions as well as operations solutions of Mercury. After the HP acquisition of Mercury, moved to Pre-Sales in HP Software primarily focusing on the Application Quality Management products leading the pre-sales for south and west zones of India.