Integrated Approach to Web Performance Testing: A Practitioner's Guide

The performance testing of Web applications is not understood properly and no skill sets are available to address the challenges faced by practitioners. In addition, there is currently a lack of available research on the performance aspects of the application. Integrated Approach to Web Performance Testing: A Practitioner's Guide fills this void and provides an integrated approach and guidelines to performance testing of Web-based systems. Based upon a mix of theoretical and practical concepts, this book provides a detailed understanding of the various aspects of performance testing in relation to the different phases of the software development life cycle. Using a rich mixture of examples, checklists, and templates, this book illustrates the different facets of application performance. Integrated Approach to Web Performance Testing: A Practitioner's Guide applies a practical approach to making appropriate choices of tools, methodologies and project management for performance testing.

Dr. B. M. Subraya is an associate vice president, education and research, at Infosys Technologies Limited, India. He is currently working as principal researcher and head of the Global Education Center (GEC) at Mysore where he is responsible for foundation-level training of new employees. He has offered tutorials in Web Performance Testing in many pre-conference Tutorials including QAI, SEPG and PSQT international Conferences. He has published many papers in international conferences in the area of Performance Testing of Web applications. Dr. Subraya holds a Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Technology.