Creating and Consuming Web Services in Visual Basic®

Items to Include in Your Test Plan

Finally, you want to make sure that you think ahead and figure out what type of activity you expect your Web Service to see. For example, you should look at your Web methods and determine what you expect the distribution of calls to be. Something like, “We expect method A to be called 25% of the time, method B to be called 30% of the time, and the other 10 methods to be called with the same frequency over the remaining 45% of the time.” Then, determine how many calls per second you want to be able to handle. If anything, make your estimates a little on the high side. An estimate of three calls per second equals 259,200 calls per day. The load you need to test for depends on whether people or computers will be ...