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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