performance test plan activities

Performance Testing Activities:Identify the Test environment.Identify the Performance acceptance/Test Criteria.Plan the test and design it.Prepare the test environment.Executing the test.Analyzing and reporting of the test.Identify the Test environment:Identify the production and test environments. Compare them if they are scaled properly.Compare the production environments that may include network band width, server configurations, Resources i.e hardware, software and tools to that of the test environment.Identify the Performance acceptance criteria:Consider response time and through put of the different transactions in an application. Find out what configurations may lead to best response time and as well throughput.Plan and design the Test:Identify the critical/important scenarios, detail about the metrics you are going to calculate during the tests, Simulate the test data which should match more or less production data.Configuring the test environment:Now configure the test environment that is similar to the production environment.This includes software, Hardware, tools, resources etc.. Scalability should be done carefully from production to test environment, because the test results will be taken as benchmarks to compare the production environments performance.Execute/Implement the test design:Implement the test design by executing the tests you have designed in the test design phase. Run the scripts and run the different tests that are mentioned in the design phase.Analyzing and reporting the test results:Analyze the test results that are generated by running the tests in test design. Analyze the response times, throughputs, and cpu utilization, other network resources etc.. and make a detailed report with what you have noticed and give your suggestions to improve the performance of the application. Performance, testing, performance testing, loadrunner, load runner, mercury load runner, performance activities, load tets