Stress Test - design stress test flow

[tongmingleee]

Step1 - Identify test objectives. Identify the objectives of stress testing in terms of the desired outcomes of the testing activity. Step 2 - Identify key scenario(s). Identify the application scenario or cases that need to be stress-tested to identify potential problems. Step 3 - Identify the workload. Identify the workload that you want to apply to the scenarios identified during the “Identify objectives” step. This is based on the workload and peak load capacity inputs. Step 4 - Identify metrics. Identify the metrics that you want to collect about the application’s performance. Base these metrics on the potential problems identified for the scenarios you identified during the “Identify objectives” step. Step 5 - Create test cases. Create the test cases in which you define steps for running a single test, as well as your expected results. Step 6 - Simulate load. Use test tools to simulate the required load for each test case and capture the metric data results. Step 7 - Analyze results. Analyze the metric data captured during the test.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb924374.aspx

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use bees with machine-gun to do the load peak testing