Chapter 10. Case Study: Preparing to Test

Case Study Assumptions

This case study examines a portion of the performance test cycle for a fictitious e-Commerce company. We decided to use an e-Commerce web site for several reasons.

  • The high graphical content of their pages tends to stress the network.

  • Many retail sites receive sustained bursts of traffic at the holiday season, which requires us to plan for these peak load periods.

  • These sites tend toward higher complexity with various databases on the back end and some special servers to assist with graphic content on the front end.

In short, e-Commerce web sites give us the broadest demonstration of the concepts we discuss in the book.

We decided to make our fictional e-Commerce company fairly large. ...

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