Load Testing
Tips for selecting appropriate tools
- Quickly analyze protocol and identify potential weak spots Examples needed
- Determine what tools can deal with these weak spots or what time you will need to deal with them yourself
- Select the cheapest "good enough" tool
Tips for speeding-up the load testing process Two ways - 1) move final test to earlier date; 2) minimize work amount - these can conflict.
- Start configuring monitors as early as possible
- Try to quickly create all scripts to see how much time it will take to implement them
What cannot give sophisticated results and takes more time to analyze results
- Testing software with functional defects
- Incomplete monitoring
Areas where problems usually appear when creating load test scripts (possibly break out tool-specific problems)
- Authentication