Planning Load Test

Steps:
•Analyzing the Application (AUT)
•Defining Testing Objectives
•Planning LoadRunner Implementation
•Examining Load Testing Objectives

Plan Load Test

•Build test scenarios that accurately emulate your working
environment. Load testing means testing your application under
typical working conditions, and checking for system performance,
reliability, capacity.
•Understand which resources are required for testing. Application
testing requires hardware, software, and human resources.
•Define success criteria in measurable terms. Focused testing goals
and test criteria ensure successful testing.

Analyzing AUT
•Identify System Component: Draw a schematic diagram to illustrate the structure of the
application.
•How many clients are connected to the server?
•What is the client machine configuration? (hardware, memory, operating system, software,
development tool, etc.)
•What type of server is used? (hardware, database type, operating system, file server etc.)
•How does the server communicate with the client?
•Is there a middleware or application server between the front-end client and back-end server?
•What is the middleware configuration?
•What other network components may affect response time? (modems etc.)
•What is the throughput of the communications devices? How many concurrent users can each
device handle?

Define Testing Objectives

 Define Vuser Activities & Behavior
•Create Vuser scripts based on your analysis of Vuser types,
their typical tasks and your test objectives. Since Vusers
emulate the actions of a typical end-user, the Vuser scripts
should include the typical end-user tasks.
•For example, to emulate a manager, you should create a
Vuser manager script that performs typical manager tasks.

Select Vuser types

Load Testing Objectives

•Measuring end-user response time
•Defining optimal hardware configuration
•Checking reliability
•Checking hardware or software upgrades
•Evaluating new products
•Identifying bottlenecks
•Measuring system capacity
 Measure Response Time

Measuring AUT Capacity

Reliability Testing
Determine the level of system stability under heavy or
continuous work loads. You can use LoadRunner to create
 stress on the system: force the system to handle extended
activity in a compressed time period to simulate the kind of
activity a system would normally experience over a period
of weeks or months.

Identify Bottlenecks

•Questions?