Managing Quality (part 4) - Stress Testing

re: Managing Quality (part 4) - Stress Testing

Brian Harry MS — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:53:18 GMT

We use the Visual Studio Team Edition for Testers product. We write "unit tests" that exercise the various components/scenarios and the load testing tool then randomly runs those tests, simulating hundreds or thousands of users.

Brian

re: Managing Quality (part 4) - Stress Testing

Manjusha — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:11:50 GMT

What kind of tool we can use to stress test an application (Database dependent) and used in different branches simulteneously........!

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Jeff Beehler's Blog — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:59:43 GMT

Brian's been compiling a great series of posts regarding managing quality which I would highly recommend

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Jeff Beehler's Blog — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:38:26 GMT

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Jeff Beehler's Blog — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:54:41 GMT

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re: Managing Quality (part 4) - Stress Testing

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re: Managing Quality (part 4) - Stress Testing

Brian Harry MS — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:02:31 GMT

It depends somewhat on the nature of the "code" here. To the degree that you are relying on SQL Server to do the work, you get the advantage of the rigorous stress testing they have done and don't need to worry quite as much about it yourself.

That said, I'd look at creating a program that could randomly and incrementally populate the source system with data and run my ETL over and over for many hours. Among other things, this will help you determine if you have any resource leaks in the ETL process.

Brian

re: Managing Quality (part 4) - Stress Testing

yoyo — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:14:56 GMT

If it's a database system that extracts data from other sources, regarding ETL part, what will you define for stress test and how will you implement the stress test? Thanks.