mySAP Toolbag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing

Chapter 10. Automating a System Load

If we return to the input-processing-output analogy to stress testing I spoke of in the previous chapter, the work of automating a system load falls within the realms of both input and processing. Of course the workload itself, furnished with valid and plentiful data, lies at the heart of stress testing. But without a mechanism for automating this workload— for driving it in a fairly unattended but highly regimented manner and doing so in a way that reflects the appropriate number of concurrent users or processes—your stress-testing efforts amount to little more than inconsistent stabs at single-unit load testing. Automating a system load allows the following:

• It frees up human resources, both end-user- and ...