Lecturer: Martin Večeřa and Pavel Macík, Red Hat / PerfCake

Date: 19. 3. 2018 at 14:00-15:40 in D3, FI MU

Content

• What tools are used for performance testing and profiling?
• What are typical performance issues, how are they discovered, how are they solved?
• Examples from real products - what caused issues, how difficult it was to discover them?
• Profiling vs. performance testing what is the difference?
• How to prevent performance issues? Software design, methodologies, architecture, scalability, people...
• Is there an architecture that lead to automatically to a better performance? Parallelism, distributed applications...?
• When it is good to start testing performance? Early, with complete project, when something goes wrong?
• Is performance testing performed manually or automatically?
• How a performance issue makes it to a well established product? How they are solved?
• Is it better to have a dedicated team or make it part of developers duties?
• Testing in virtual environment
• Influence of the runtime environment, test parameters, reproducible results
• Whitebox vs blackbox testing
• Influence of authentication and authorization
• Hardware utilization for maximal performance
• Influence of the measurement tool on the performance
• Microbenchmarking, JVM tuning...
• Coordinated omission

​​Lecture Material

Slides attached below.