3. Why Performance Test?
“A business in today’s digital
culture needs to make sure that
its website is working hard for the
business and not against it.”
15. Tools – 2 case studies
SoapUI – testing
Web-Service based
Application Performance
Siege – Web site
load testing
16. Siege
Simple but powerful Linux based tool
Supports basic
authentication, cookies, HTTP and HTTPS
protocols
Configurable number of simulated users
Can be used test a Windows server.
17. SoapUI
A java-based web service testing tool
Used for
inspecting, invoking, developing, simulating
, mocking and load-testing web services
18. Server monitoring
Performance Monitor statistics
Users Time CPU% Memory Network bytes/sec
run/min private (KB)
Tomcat Tomcat Mean Max
1000 15 18.2 1,096,024 661,634 11,860,523
2000 15 29.6 1,246,924 1,042,553 7,420,530
19. Where to go for more information
- http://www.perftestplus.com/resources.htm
- Scott Barber presentations
- http://www.soapui.org
- http://www.joedog.org/siege-home
- Web Load Testing for Dummies - Scott
Barber
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/cc749249.aspx