Performance Testing Fundamentals: from basics to hands-on

From fundamentals to hands-on performance testing with JMeter, BlazeMeter, Grafana, and InfluxDB

What you’ll learn
✓ Understand the core concepts and principles of performance testing
✓ Explain the role and business importance of performance testing in modern systems
✓ Identify the purpose and benefits of various performance testing types
✓ Understand key performance metrics and how to analyze test results
✓ Identify and choose the right performance testing tools for different project needs
✓ Design, execute, and analyze basic performance tests using JMeter and BlazeMeter
✓ Build a complete performance testing framework from scratch using JMeter, InfluxDB, and Grafana
✓ Create clear and meaningful performance test reports for technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements
● No prior performance testing experience is required. Basic knowledge of software testing or development is helpful but not mandatory

Description
Performance issues are one of the most common reasons why applications fail in production. A system may work correctly, but if it is slow, unstable, or cannot handle real user load, it quickly becomes a business problem.

This course is designed to give you a clear and practical introduction to performance testing, starting from the fundamentals and moving toward hands-on, real-world practice.

• You will begin by learning what performance testing is, why it is important, and how it fits into the software development lifecycle. We will cover key performance metrics, non-functional requirements, and the most common types of performance testing, including load, stress, spike, endurance, scalability, capacity, and volume testing.

• Next, you will learn how to design realistic load models and how to create clear and meaningful performance test reports that can be understood by both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• The course then moves into hands-on practice with Apache JMeter. You will install JMeter, explore its main components, create your first performance tests step by step, and generate HTML reports for result analysis.

• To simulate real production-like environments, you will also work with BlazeMeter, a cloud-based performance testing platform. You will record scenarios, configure tests, run them in the cloud, analyze results, and understand pricing and usage models.

• Finally, you will build a complete performance testing monitoring framework from scratch using JMeter, InfluxDB, and Grafana, learning how to collect metrics, visualize them in dashboards, and analyze performance results like performance engineers do in real companies.

This course is ideal for QA engineers, testers, developers, and DevOps engineers who want to start or grow their skills in performance testing.

No prior performance testing experience is required.

Who this course is for
■ This course is designed for beginners who are new to performance testing and want to understand why it’s important to go beyond manual or automation testing
■ It’s ideal for QA engineers, testers, developers, and anyone involved in software quality who wants to integrate performance testing into real projects