End to End Performance Test Approach - Part 1

The purpose of this post is to show end to end approach for implementing performance testing. This document covers different phases of performance testing and approach to follow for successful performance test

Requirement Gathering:


During the Requirement Analysis phase it is important to assess and understand the nature of the application and the environment in which testing and monitoring should be performed. In addition to this, identify the resource requirements and plan based on the application. Also the existing Non-functional Requirement (NFR) would be discussed and understood by having discussion with the Design & Development team with respect to SLA’s, number of concurrent users and volumetric information. Also, wherever there is any specific information lacking, the same should be discussed with Design & Development team to reach a mutual agreement and definition of the same.

Performance team should also analyze system volume metrics over specified period of time in production to identify load patterns, work load behavior, Peak user load etc in the system.


Identify the peak period during volume metric analysis and also transaction arrival rate along with the user concurrency to simulate in the test environment. Create a workload model for the peak load with transaction mix along the user load based on the volume metric analysis. This will also help us in identifying the types of tests required for testing the application. Below is a sample template of the workload model for deriving the peak load.

Workload Model