MCPD Certification

Stabilizing and Testing an Application (17 percent)

• Define a performance testing strategy. This objective may include but is not limited to:
  • Define how you will test an application’s performance under a specified load
  • Define how you will test an application’s behavior when specified load is exceeded
• Define a functional testing strategy. This objective may include but is not limited to:
  • Identify component interactions and dependencies
  • Define how you will test a component in isolation
  • Define how you will test a component’s interactions with other components
• Perform integration testing. This objective may include but is not limited to:
  • Run integration tests to determine whether the component interacts with other components as expected
  • Verify results
  • Test that endpoints are correct and service references are updated for communication methods such as WCF, Remoting, Web services, MSMQ, and Enterprise Services
• Perform a code review. This objective may include but is not limited to:
  • Perform a security review
  • Perform a functional review
  • Perform a performance review
  • Perform a regulatory compliance review
• Resolve a bug. This objective may include but is not limited to:
  • Analyze root cause for problems in code, such as exception handling issues, performance problems, security issues, resource usage issues, and features that do not perform as expected