If all you need is a little expert guidance…we do that too

Many organizations already have testing tools and teams doing performance testing, but discover that they have a gap or two: how to monitor system resources, interpret results, diagnose and tune, develop maintainable and portable scripts, surmount the specific challenges of a third-party app, or employ a sound methodology for gathering requirements.

Mentora’s senior consultants can help you bridge your specific gaps, either by mentoring your team or doing it for you. We bring to bear our methodologies, templates, experience with multiple tools, and teaching competency, either on-site or remotely, to solve your immediate need and boost your team’s capability.

Our Approach We start with a conversation to understand your organization, team, apps, gaps and constraints. From there we’ll craft an approach that addresses the key points and refine that with you until we have the right solution. We’ll do the necessary prep work to become fully acquainted with your team and applications. Then we’ll work with you in the format that fits best: do or teach, on-site or remotely. Each of our solutions gives you the best of our methodology, tools and documents -- spanning the soft and hard skills of conducting effective

performance tests. If training is one of your goals, you'll come away with tangible work products on your target application.

Some of the gaps we can bridge

• Third-party app require special scripting skills?
  We have expertise in the largest ERP, healthcare and collaboration suites, and we’ve either solved or know how to solve the most arcane protocols .
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• Need help interpreting test results?
  What do you do with the barrels of numbers that a load test yields? Circulate a bunch of default graphs and reports? There’s a lot more to turning numbers into clear observations, correlating them with system resources to provide diagnostics, and drawing actionable conclusions.
• How do you get a project started correctly?
  We’ll show you how to define objectives, select business processes, quantify the Target Load, and get the right people enrolled.
• Need some deeper product training?
  We’re experts in HP LoadRunner, OpenSTA and JMeter, and love to teach.
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• Not sure what to monitor?
  We’ve done hundreds of projects on both Windows and Unix/Linux, and know how the bellwether metrics to monitor on each system tier, the right tools to apply, and how to configure them.