Sunday, March 25, 2012

Do's and Don'ts in Load Testing

Do’s :

Ø Providing admin rights and start up health check on the servers for monitoring before ten minutes.

Ø Schedule a dedicated time frame and environment for the load test.

Ø Clearing all the logs and stopping unnecessary Processes.

Ø Creating a checklist on environment and application changes.

Ø Creating folders for results, test scripts and test runs on the test runs executed.

Ø Conducting Baseline tests before and after tuning.

Ø Restarting the application after each successful run.

DON’Ts:

Ø Browsing through the application during load testing.

Ø Start of any activity (Virus Scan)

Ø Opening the monitoring tools during load testing.

Ø Changing configuration settings of application server or database server during load testing.

Ø Connecting to remote machine from either the load machine or the controller machine.

Ø Execute batch processes during the test

Ø Usage of network during the test.


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