Load Testing of a Web Application
I've been stuck in load testing "heck" recently. I've been testing the COM+ application that I have inherited as well as doing some testing on an application I have written for this client. One interesting thing that I have found. The load test utility I am using has this thing called a "frustration coefficient." The COM+ app has a value of 13. My app has a value of 0. Smaller is better.
Through this, I have also found some errors in my application with regards to database transaction deadlocks. I think it is because all of these simulated users are using the same user id because these dead locks have never shown up in any user testing. I think I am going to modify their script to use different users at various times in the application test.
Loadtesting is good. It is helping me find errors I didn't know existed and no one has found on their own.