Knowledge Base – LoadStorm
March 7, 2013
With LoadStorm LITE you can get a monthly subscription, you pay one fixed fee that allows you to run many tests. This is very popular with our customers because most of the time they need many cycles of testing and tuning. You run a test, you find a bottleneck, you tune your application, you run another test, you fix the problem, and so on. You don’t need to calculate the number of servers or the amount of bandwidth your test will consume. The flat fee is based on VUser Hours per month: VUser Hours Max VUsers Per Test Type Monthly […]
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If you prefer to pay as you run tests, we offer a “Storm on Demand” option where you can pay for virtual users as needed for $0.0399 each. The Ultimate Flexibility Buy any number of users you want. Use them all in one test or draw upon them when you need them. They never expire. Run longer tests? Simple – the number of users times the number of hours. A 1,000 VUser test for 5 hours costs the same as a one-hour 5,000 VUser test. The following table illustrates the cost of pay-per-test for VUsers in a 60-minute load test. Storm […]
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Our verification process works exactly like Google Analytics. The idea is to prove it is your server so LoadStorm isn’t used for a denial of service attack. For every server referenced in your test plan, LoadStorm will generate a unique verification code that will be used to confirm you control the domain in one of two ways: Filename in root directory Code in home page Filename in root directory You can put a file with the name generated by LS into your root directory – it doesn’t matter what the file contains. So let’s say your target server is […]
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One scenario represents one type of user. Put another way, each scenario will click on different pages or submit various forms because that’s how real users behave on your site. It is common for web applications to have some users login and perform advanced functions, while other users are just casually viewing some content anonymously. We recommend that you analyze any data you have currently regarding the types of users and their traffic patterns on your site. Then try to create a test plan that emulates those patterns as closely as possible in order to achieve load testing that demands […]
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A step in a scenario can be thought of as a single user action. That action may be clicking on a link, logging into your application, going directly to a specific URL, putting a widget in a shopping cart, or entering credit card information. The first step in a scenario should be accessing a URL. Usually this will be the home page of your application because that is where most people start. LoadStorm will parse the HTML returned for the home page, and it will identify all of the referenced resources such as images, CSS, and external Javascript files. It […]