SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation

Additional Stress-Testing Goals

When you have made the initial investment in a stress test, and have the infrastructure and scripts in place to accurately simulate how your production environment will behave after Go-Live, it’s very tempting to take this investment one step further and begin doing some additional value-add or just plain out-of-scope stress testing. In my experience, the most common additional test-runs performed outside of the core goal-driven testing include

• Playing “what if,” like losing an application server to see the impact that its absence has on load balancing

• Verifying that your failover solution works as advertised, and ensuring that specific failover scenarios operate as expected.

• Ramping up the system to reflect excessive ...