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Performance Testing with

SoapUI and Siege

Diana Cârciu

SoftVision

10th of November 2012

Performance Testing

Why?

What?

How?

Why Performance Testing?

“A business in today’s digital

culture needs to make sure that

its website is working hard for the

business and not against it.”

Why Performance Testing?

Speed

Scalability

Stability

Speed

Does the application respond quickly

enough for the intended users?

How do we measure?

Responsiveness

User experience

Scalability

Will the application handle the

expected user load and beyond?

How do we measure?

Load

Capacity

Volume

Stability

Is the application stable under expected and unexpected user loads? (AKA Robustness)

How do we measure?

Consistency

Reliability

Stress

What is Performance Testing?

Speed

Scalabilit

y

Stability

Load testing

Stress testing

Endurance testing

->

Load Testing

Progressively

Concurrent users

Response time

Stress Testing

Upper limits

“That’ll never happen in

production”

….but it does

Endurance Testing

Continuous expected load

Tests ran long time

Emergent behaviors

How to conduct Performance

Tests?

Performance key points

Performance Test Plan (how much load?)

Choose tools

Performance key points

Concurrency/Throughput (Transaction Rate)

Server Response Time

Server Resources Monitoring

Performance Test Plan (how much load?)

Transactions

Schema

Three situations

Tools – 2 case studies

SoapUI – testing

Web-Service based

Application Performance

Siege – Web site

load testing

Siege

Linux based tool

Simple, easy to use, but powerful

Used for web load testing

Supports basic authentication, HTTP and

HTTPS protocols

Can be used test a Windows server.

SoapUI

A java-based web service testing tool

Used for inspecting, invoking, developing,

simulating, mocking and load-testing web

services

Server monitoring

Users Time

run/min

CPU% Memory

private (KB)

Network bytes/sec

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

Performance Monitor statistics

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

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