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✅ Master Level
Performance Testing
Complete Beginner → Advanced Syllabus (Pin-to-Pin)
🟢 LEVEL 1 — Foundations
1. Introduction to Performance Testing
- What is performance testing
- Purpose: verify speed & stability under load
- Types: load, stress, endurance, spike
- Performance metrics & KPIs
- Business impact of performance
2. Performance Basics
- Response time
- Throughput
- Resource utilization
- Concurrency
🟢 LEVEL 2 — Load Testing
3. Load Test Fundamentals
- Virtual users
- Ramp-up strategy
- Sustained load
- Think time simulation
4. Load Testing Tools
- JMeter
- LoadRunner
- k6
- Gatling
🟡 LEVEL 3 — Test Scenarios
5. User Journey Scenarios
- Realistic user workflows
- Request sequencing
- Parameterization
- Data variation
6. Test Design
- Load profiles
- User distribution
- Peak vs normal load
- Session management
🟡 LEVEL 4 — Metrics & Monitoring
7. Key Performance Indicators
- Response time percentiles
- Error rate
- Throughput
- Apdex score
8. System Monitoring
- CPU usage
- Memory usage
- Disk I/O
- Network bandwidth
🟠 LEVEL 5 — Bottleneck Analysis
9. Performance Profiling
- Slow request identification
- Database query analysis
- API endpoint profiling
- Resource bottleneck detection
10. Root Cause Analysis
- Identifying bottlenecks
- Performance degradation
- Resource contention
- Scalability limits
🟠 LEVEL 6 — Stress & Endurance
11. Stress Testing
- Breaking point identification
- Gradual load increase
- Failure modes
- Recovery testing
12. Endurance Testing
- Long-running load
- Memory leaks
- Resource degradation
- Stability verification
🔵 LEVEL 7 — Spike & Chaos
13. Spike Testing
- Sudden load increase
- Traffic burst handling
- Auto-scaling behavior
- Queue management
14. Chaos Engineering
- Fault injection
- Service failure simulation
- Cascading failure detection
- Resilience verification
🔴 LEVEL 8 — Frontend Performance
15. Browser Performance
- Page load metrics
- Rendering performance
- JavaScript execution
- Network analysis
16. Synthetic Monitoring
- Lighthouse testing
- WebPageTest
- Performance budgets
- Continuous monitoring
🔴 LEVEL 9 — Optimization & CI/CD
17. Performance Baselines
- Baseline establishment
- Regression detection
- Performance trends
- Alert thresholds
18. CI/CD Integration
- Automated performance tests
- Performance gates
- Report generation
- Trend tracking
⭐ Senior Frontend Focus (Must Master)
- Frontend rendering performance testing
- Large list rendering performance
- Bundle size impact on load time
- Component re-render optimization
- Network request waterfall analysis
- Core Web Vitals monitoring (LCP, FID, CLS)
- Mobile device performance constraints