ITJB AWS MIGRATION - Performance/Load Tests Test Plan (High Level) Phase 1

Authors: Abhinav Kant, Louis Arthur & Ramesh Venkataramaiah Version 1.0 Date: 24/01/2014

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1. Introduction
The objective of the document is to outline the performance test approach for the AWS Migration of the ITJB websites which will be used to ensure the quality of this migration into the Amazon Cloud.

2. Scope and Approach

The tool proposed to be used for most of these performance tests including the functional and infrastructure tests by the test team is Blazemeter. WHY BlazeMeter ?? Is currently the No. 1 solution for cloud based performance testing at the moment, very lucrative due to its various tiers of pricing plans. Is very scalable in performance/ load creation, so it can work for different kind of transactions and websites Gives a full console to monitor performance for background processes also and the infrastructure using new relic, gives good visibility on how the existing infrastructure will perform under load stress. Is driven in engine by the open-source and famous Jmeter tool which is very customizable and also has a huge library on internet to try various other useful plugins Creates a realistic and varying server load based on the way the parameters are defined in the script. Also can use .csv files for randomising data or creating specific data pools to use.

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IN WHAT WAYS CAN BLAZEMETER WORK

Blazemeter has Jmeter as its engine and so it works same way as Jmeter in all respects and expands its capability for the cloud based tests.

BlazeMeter only works with and needs .jmx test script files to define the test criteria and test steps flow and then it uses different servers in cloud to generate the load and run the tests.

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Jmeter creates the .JMX scripts in 3 different ways

MOST TIME CONSUMING / EXISTING SCRIPTS WONT WORK NO MAJOR ADAVNATAGES OVER RECORD/PLAYBACK BEST AND FASTEST APPROACH a) Using the http sampler to record and playback a scenario

b) Using the tree and thread structure using post/get GUI elements

c) Scripting inside Jmeter Console window using Webdriver Sampler Method (WDS coding using Java and new sampling Jmeter commands )

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OUR SUGGESTED APPROACH

We feel after looking at the deadlines and project milestones going with the Record-Playback approach to create test scripts for our needs with BlazeMeter solves our purpose the best and in the fastest way. Some advantages of this method are 1) Easily editable and re-useable scripts. 2) Not a very technical person is required in record-playback so multiple resources with no experience of these tools can become handy and use them later also. 3) No Latency will be introduced in this method as confirmed by BlazeMeter, record-playback using chrome extension is their preferred method too. 4) Real time and real life scenario recorded and played back with maximum load will give a true and ideal representation of how systems are performing.

ADVANTAGES OF ENTERPRISE EDITION

Very Professional and helpful team ready to make this work for us in every customizable way of DICE workflow using the Enterprise Licence.

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PROPOSED SCENARIOS OF PERFORMANCE TESTS (FUNCTIONAL)

CANDIDATE FLOWS

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REGISTERED USER FULL WORKFLOW END TO END IN ITJB WEBSITES (UK, NL, DE, BE & SAP) includes elements. Logging in, Searches, Job Applications, CV uploads, Setting JBEs and browsing his/her profile. FAIR AMOUNT OF USAGE PATH

UNREGISTERED USER FULL WORKFLOW END TO END IN ITJB WEBSITES (UK, NL, DE, BE & SAP) includes elements., Searches, Creating Profile, then Job Applications, CV uploads, Setting JBEs and browsing his/her profile. IDEALLY MOST USED PATH

UNREGISTERED USER FULL WORKFLOW END TO END IN ITJB WEBSITES (UK, NL, DE, BE & SAP) includes elements. Searches, then just browing Job Applications and websites in general.

LEAST USED PATH

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ELEMENTS TO BE MONITORED SEPERATELY ALSO (UK WEBSITE) 1. LOGIN FUNCTIONALITY LOAD TIME 2. JOB SEARCHES WITH DIFFERENT PARAMETERS CLICK ADVERT LOAD TIME 3. APPLYING FOR JOB APPLICATION AND CV UPLOAD - LOAD TIME

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RECRUITERS FLOWS

RECRUITER LOG IN SEARCHES CV DB VIEWS CVs DOWNLOAD CVs EMAIL CANDIDATES CREATE SHORTLISTS VIEW CREATED SHORTLISTS

ADMIN PROFILE FLOWS - LEAST PRIORITY

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