What is the best way to simulate users?
First off, I am a "green as grass" new SoapUI/LoadUI user. I am very excited about these tools, but I need an explanation of some of the settings. Background Info: I have an app that, on startup,...
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Ole,
I am hoping to have multiple users initiating the test simultaneously. This is to simulate what I hope to be thousands of users being asked to update their mobile databases simultaneously.
The goal of this test is to determine how many users can open the app near simultaneously without taxing the server beyond 80% CPU Usage or causing the app to fail due to timeout.
A sustained rate should give me some idea, but I need to be able to express that as a number of users. I am trying to approximate real life as much as possible and with thousands of potential users being prompted to access the mobile app at essentially the same time, I predict that there will be some requests generated simultaneously and I hope to duplicate that with LoadUI.
Henrik,
The Fixed Load Generator may be the ticket. If I have multiple calls to the operations in my Web Service, most requiring data from previously call operations, is the interval going to apply to the called operations within the test, or the interval between the end of one test and the beginning of the next?
Thanks guys, I've lots to learn yet, but I think this will help me accomplish great things.
glenn
I am hoping to have multiple users initiating the test simultaneously. This is to simulate what I hope to be thousands of users being asked to update their mobile databases simultaneously.
The goal of this test is to determine how many users can open the app near simultaneously without taxing the server beyond 80% CPU Usage or causing the app to fail due to timeout.
A sustained rate should give me some idea, but I need to be able to express that as a number of users. I am trying to approximate real life as much as possible and with thousands of potential users being prompted to access the mobile app at essentially the same time, I predict that there will be some requests generated simultaneously and I hope to duplicate that with LoadUI.
Henrik,
The Fixed Load Generator may be the ticket. If I have multiple calls to the operations in my Web Service, most requiring data from previously call operations, is the interval going to apply to the called operations within the test, or the interval between the end of one test and the beginning of the next?
Thanks guys, I've lots to learn yet, but I think this will help me accomplish great things.
glenn