Checklist for Designing Better Performance Test Scripts
Checklist for Designing Better Performance Test Scripts Make sure the script doesn’t contain incorrect or extraneous URLs. The urls specified should be in correct sequence. It might be possible while recording, script writer would have gone to his / her popular website. It can be validated by using test tool’s “playback” feature to confirm what the script actually does. Identify all dynamic data (as the response from server) present in a script and correlate it. Usually it can be found by recording scripts two times and making comparisons between them. Parameterize scripts to support dynamic data set. In presence of dynamic data, every simulated user exercises the exact same path but avoids responses from the cache and exercises database interactions properly. Use proper checkpoint(s) / assertion(s) for all steps involved in the transaction. Absence of checkpoint might result in better response time when a page is not getting downloaded completely / correctl