Trainer: Morgan van Dyk
Is your organization suffering from performance issues in your application? Do you see a need for performance testing in your overall testing strategy, but you have no idea where to start and how to approach this?
You're not alone. Performance testing is a deeply technical skill that unfortunately is often overlooked during software development and testing. This course is the perfect start for teams and individuals that want to learn how to add performance testing to their software testing approach and their skill set. Through guided, hands-on exercises you'll learn how to set up and execute performance tests and analyze the results, setting you up for performance testing success.
Yes. An invoice detailing the instalment terms will be sent to you after you register for this course.
We try to accommodate everyone’s schedule, however, the course generally runs from 3pm to 6:30pm on weekdays.
Ad hoc sessions with the instructor can also be booked by arrangement.
No prior exposure to object-oriented programming is required for this course.
You do not need any special equipment, however, an external mouse and a second screen will be helpful.
This course only uses freely available and open source software, so no additional investment is required. Detailed instructions for installing this software and preparing your system for the course will be sent to you well in advance.
Yes, each session is recorded and made available to you afterwards. If you have a problem with being recorded, we can make arrangements so that everybody is comfortable to attend and participate in the course.
Practical exercises are a big part of this course, both during the sessions as well as take-home exercises in between sessions. At the end of the course, you will be required to complete a capstone assignment which assesses your grasp of everything that has been covered in the sessions. No theory questions will be asked.
Yes, indeed this is the intention. Our trainers are not only excellent practitioners in their field, they also have extensive experience in transferring their experience and knowledge to others in a pleasant and comfortable manner. They also enjoy sharing many amusing and illuminating anecdotes from their careers to-date.
The course is conducted using the industry-standard, open source Apache JMeter performance test tool. However, the concepts and principles that are taught in this course translate to other performance testing tools as well.
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