Load Testing in the Cloud

Delete page: Load Testing Questions

You need to know how the system will be used. Ask plenty of questions of project stakeholders and write down the answers.

  • Will it be mostly for anonymous browsing?
  • Is it designed for internal company research?
  • Does it primarily facilitate collaboration between trading partners?
  • Are there planned marketing campaigns to promote the site?
  • B2B or B2C?
  • Will employees all sign-on at the same time each day?
  • Are there regular times of higher usage such as end of month?
  • Can irregular events such as webinars or advertisements drive waves of traffic?
  • How many people does the marketing department anticipate coming to the site monthly? Daily?
  • Does the user interface serve as a front-end to non-integrated back-end system such as PeopleSoft or a CRM?
  • Is single sign-on or other identity access management system involved?
  • How fast should a page load?
  • What response time would the CEO consider acceptable to her/him?
  • Does the VP of Marketing have any idea of the correlation between site performance and revenue?
  • How does the executive team define success for the average response times of this application?
  • Has our development team built this app from scratch?
  • Are any open source modules being used?
  • What is the primary technology stack? LAMP, MS, other?
  • How many coding languages are we using? Which ones?
  • Which database engine is deployed? Oracle, SQL Server, mySQL, other?
  • Are we hosting this in our own center? Co-located? Dedicated hosted servers? Cloud?
  • What are the logical layers in our architecture?
  • What are the physical layers in our architecture?
  • How, if at all, are we configuring load balancing?
  • Is caching turned on in the application? Web server? Database or messaging?
  • Does the web server use a compression technology? Is it turned on?

That's just a sample. The idea is to get a broad context of which the system will operate. Ask! Listen! Take notes!

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