Performance Testing Preparation

Hi Folks,

I believe many of you have done the performance testing using IBM Rational Performance Tester. But, based on my experience, before doing this test, we need to have a check-list in order to do a successful testing. The followings are the list of the items that we need to verify before the actual performance testing:

Rational Performance Tester – Response Time

The “Performance Summary” page shows response time for a page (say, Page A) as 6141 ms. But when I saw the page breakdown, and saw the page elements of that page, and I added all the page elements’ response time, I got 1000 ms, which is very different from 6141.