Estimating Test Duration

Load / Stress Testing of Websites

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5. Estimating Test Duration

The duration of the peak is also very important-a Web site that may deal very well with a peak level for five or ten minutes may crumble if that same load level is sustained longer than that. You should use the length of the average user session as a base for determining the load test duration.

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Other Interview Questions

• Why Scalability and Load Testing is Important?
• Preparing for a Load Test
• What Is Concurrent Users
• Estimating Target Load Levels
• Estimating Test Duration
• What is Ramp-up Rate
• How to create the scenarios that are to be used to load test the web site?
• How to prepare a script to run each scenario with the number of types of users concurrently playing back to give you a the load scenario?
• How To Create a Load Testing Scenario?
• Why System Performance Monitoring Is Important?
• Could You Suggest an Execution Strategy for a Load Scenario?
• How To Report Load Testing Results?
• What Are the Important Aspects of Website Load Testing?