Workshop - Client-Side Performance Testing at STPCon 2017

I conducted a 4-hour workshop on Client-Side Performance Testing at STPCon 2017 on 15th March 2017.

Workshop Abstract

In this workshop, we will see the different dimensions of Performance Testing and Performance Engineering, and focus on Client-side Performance Testing.

Before we get to doing some Client-side Performance Testing activities, we will first understand how to look at client-side performance, and putting that in the context of the product under test. We will see, using a case study, the impact of caching on performance, the good & the bad! We will then experiment with some tools like WebPageTest and Page Speed to understand how to measure client-side performance.

Lastly – just understanding the performance of the product is not sufficient. We will look at how to automate the testing for this activity – using WebPageTest (private instance setup), and experiment with yslow – as a low-cost, programmatic alternative to WebPageTest.

We will also look at the different dimensions of Client-side Performance Testing for native mobile applications.

PS: This workshop will be a combination of presentation and hands-on-activity with lots of discussion throughout. You should bring your laptop with you.

Workshop Takeaways:

• Understand difference between is Performance Testing and Performance Engineering.
• Hand’s on experience of some open-source tools to monitor, measure and automate Client-side Performance Testing.
• Examples / code walk-through of some ways to automate Client-side Performance Testing.

Slides

Client-Side Performance Testing from Anand Bagmar

Some pictures from the workshop 

(Thanks Mike Lyles, Curtis Stuehrenberg for the pictures)

Client-side Performance Testing workshop video

As mentioned here, I conducted a Client-side Performance Testing workshop in TechJam.

It was a full house, and almost turned into a flop show because there was no wifi available - an essential requirement for the workshop. There were 2 things that saved me:
1. The attendees, thankfully (in this case) did not read the prerequisites well - most of them came without a laptop
2. Because of the above, I could get by using a 3G USB connection and just do a demo of the tools I wanted to show.

End of the day, all was good. I got good feedback from the participants that they really enjoyed the workshop, and it was very informative and useful. (Thank you all again for the kind words!)

Below is the video from the workshop.

The slides are available here:

Client-Side Performance Testing from Anand Bagmar

Client-side Performance Testing Workshop in TechJam, 13th August 2015

I am conducting a Client-side Performance Testing workshop in TechJam on Thursday, 13th August 2015.

You can register for the same from the TechJam page.

Abstract

In this workshop, we will see the different dimensions of Performance Testing and Performance Engineering, and focus on Client-side Performance Testing.

Before we get to doing some Client-side Performance Testing activities, we will first understand how to look at client-side performance, and putting that in the context of the product under test. We will see, using a case study, the impact of caching on performance, the good & the bad! We will then experiment with some tools like WebPageTest and Page Speed to understand how to measure client-side performance.

Lastly - just understanding the performance of the product is not sufficient. We will look at how to automate the testing for this activity - using WebPageTest (private instance setup), and experiment with yslow - as a low-cost, programmatic alternative to WebPageTest.

Expected Learnings

1. What is Performance Testing and Performance Engineering.
2. Hand's on experience of some open-source tools to monitor, measure and automate Client-side Performance Testing.
3. Examples / code walk-through of some ways to automate Client-side Performance Testing.

Prerequisites

1. Participants are required to bring their own laptop for this workshop.
2. Also, please install phantomJS on your machine (http://phantomjs.org/download.html)