Work Term Update-April 2015

This summer I am working at NCR again. This time I am doing performance testing as well as some regular testing. I started my work term two weeks early so that I could meet with the coop student from the previous semester (who was just finishing up his work term) and learn how performance testing works from him. I was only working for two weeks in April, but here is what I accomplished.

Set Up Computer

I spent the first week of my work term setting up my computer. Unfortunately there was a delay with the disks for installing software on my work computer so it took a very long time to get going. 

Research for new Sales Server

The sales team has been having some issues with their current server and were looking for an upgrade. I was assigned the task of researching our options for a new sales server. I was not very familiar with setting up servers so I began researching some of our options as well as reading through our documentation to figure out what we needed as a minimum starting point.

Performance Testing Training

The previous coop student taught me how to restart the performance system, run the tests and gave me some basics of what to look for once the results of the test are in. It was a lot of information to absorb but I took lots of notes since I knew his term was coming to an end and I wouldn't be able to ask him questions. He taught me how to use JMeter and gave me a run down of how our scripts work.