Load Testing
Best Practices
With a Spree App
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What is
load testing?
Load Testing ≠ Wikipedia!
Software
Quality Assurance
Load Testing
(AKA Software Performance Testing)
Load testing is ...
Performance testing
It's not just load testing!
Load testing
Stress testing
Endurance testing
Why do we need it?
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Black Friday
Cyber Monday
Best practices?
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Plan
Configure
Script
Execute
Analyze
http://www.neustar.biz/resources/whitepapers/load-testing-best-practices-whitepaper
Example time!
RNA Reset
PLAN:
What?
Length?
Costs?
Type?
Limitations?
What are we testing?
25,000 people
Influx of users
Database is OK?
Too front-end heavy?
How long to test?
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Cost prohibitive?
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What kind? What type?
Load?
Stress?
Endurance?
Optimization?
Any Limitations?
Configure:
Setup?
Users?
Duration?
Staging?
What's the Setup?
How large are the servers?
How many web servers are needed?
How many users?
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What's the Test Duration?
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Is Staging set up properly?
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Script:
Simple
Requests
Ruby
JMeter
Keep it simple!
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HTTP Requests
JSON? TEXT?
Ruby is the best!
JMeter
Execute:
App Monitoring Tools
Load Testing Tools
Pick your poison...
App Monitoring Tools
Skylight
New Relic
Server Density
AppDynamics
Load Testing Tools
LoadImpact.com
Blitz.io
Loader.io
Flood.io
Analyze:
Results
Optimize
What to Optimize
Caching.
CDNs.
Background workers.
Changing types of Javascript being used.
Bottom Line:
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Best Practices
1) Plan
2) Configure
3) Script
4) Execute
5) Analyze
6) ???
7) Profit!
Thank you!
@mookiy
risa@ninefold.com
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Load Testing Best Practices (incomplete)
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Load Testing Best Practices (incomplete)
Quality assurance: Load Testing Best Practices (with a Spree app)
