Friday, February 05, 2010

preview of "EXPerT"-- End to End performance test "framework"

I am not sure it can be called "framework"(it is too "tiny" to call it "framework", and currently Framework word becomes abuse...), my "intention" is to setup a platform to run my sanity performance test with Watir. And I met Httpwatch last year which can integrate with Watir to automate it and get detail Performance data, it reminds me an amazing way to Perform our End to End Performance testing for Daily tracking.

I made a dummy version few months ago, and it proves my thoughts very well. Tom(My intern) and I work together to make it more fancy and robust during last month.


I name it as "EXPerT", it is stand for "Extreme Performance Testing", will publish it soon, and hope it can helps more people to make a better performance website

Features overview:
1> Launching Web browser (IE by default)
2> Httpwatch detail Performance measurement(right now we are focusing on Basic Edition data)
3> Generating Detail HTML report
4> Error Handling
5> Test Case management
6> Local and Global Parametrization support
7> Integrate with Google Chart to demo your perf result
8> threshold setting for Response time/page size/ect
9> Easy to write your own methods to extent your toolkit
10> accessing DB operation provided
11> Taking screen shot when page got Error or anywhere you want
12> Performance data statistics (pending)

Screen shots:
Summary page information(i set the performance threshold for response time to 3 seconds and page size to 200KB)


I will keep on posting on this stuff. Happy Performance testing!

Next step i may integrate it with Dynatrace-ajax as well, it will help to get more accurate Front-end performance insight! That will be exciting to me! :)

Monday, February 01, 2010