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  • May 29, 2015 at 2:41 pm #8277

    Kim
    @punkmik
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    Hello all,

    I am learning a bit about performance testing recently and thought I would share how we approached a load testing need/problem and to hopefully get some more tips and tricks. 🙂

    The performance test we did was for a re-launch of a website.

    First step was to define reasons as to why we wanted to load and performance test the website:
    1. Ensure new infrastructure is reliable and responsive
    2. Find maximum capacity so as to respond adequately to traffic spikes

    We then set Load Testing objectives:
    1. Handle up to 1000 users per hour (~20% more than the greatest load experienced so far).
    2. 200 users should be able to use the site simultaneously.
    3. Error rate below 1%

    Then we used existing google analytic metrics to analyse a typical user journey through the website and blog, for example:
    Blog: The average user reads 1.3 articles, so the test will ensure 2 articles are read.
    In this journey the test will:
    Navigate to the root domain
    Navigate to /blog
    Navigate to an article
    Navigate to a related article
    Leave the site

    We had a couple of these scenarios ranging from simple as above to more complex.
    Following those tests we added 2 more:
    1. A final test journey is a random selection of URLs from the sitemap to more accurately represent user indecisiveness and randomosity.
    2. Programmatically; load the sitemap XML, parse it, create HTTP requests

    Issues we had:
    1. Local machines were bottlenecks – JVM and internet could not keep up with large number of requests
    2. Development work stopped by excessive testing – slowed the manual test environment down
    3. Maths (because threads, ramping up times etc were new to us)

    How do you approach load and performance testing? Any tips for a newbie in the field?
    June 25, 2015 at 3:26 am #8614

    Thanh
    @rocky
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    @Kim,
    Thanks for sharing.
    I’m curious to know more about Performance testing…what is your favorite source to learn performance testing?
    August 22, 2015 at 11:12 pm #9120

    crystal
    @crystalpellitier
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    Thanks for sharing Kim.Looking forward for your new posts regarding performance testing.
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