Recently, I got a chance to do hands on Infrared J2EE performance testing tool. While going through documentation available on internet, I noticed that everything is in windows operating system context. Hence I had to change all configuration to suite unix environment. It was weblogic 8.1 on unix. It did eat up some time. Hence thought of sharing those installation details.

Performance, though this concern exists in an application development lifecycle since day one, it comes into picture only when the first performance problem is reported, mostly in production environment. Application is ready; unit testing, integration testing and functional testing rounds are complete. And now its time for some load/performance testing cycles. In just a few hours, the performance testing team shouts ‘the page is taking ages to load’, ‘I can click on a button, go get a coffee, finish it off, and the application is still cooking something behind and …