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The Science and Art of Web Site Load Testing
By Alberto Savoia
  
Summary: Web site load testing is very different from traditional load testing and requires new tools and new approaches. Most Web site load tests are wildly inaccurate and unrealistic and consequently useless or dangerously misleading. Useful load testing requires loading a Web site with different scenarios, at different load points, and monitoring all the key components. Approach Web site load testing as 80% science and 20% art.
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About the Author
Alberto Savoia (asavoia@velogic.com)is founder and CTO of Velogic, Inc., a professional services company that specializes in Web site load testing. In his 15-year career he has been consistently and passionately committed to improve the state of the art in software testing through the use of formal methods and automation, and has been granted several software patents, including 2 US patents in the area or test automation.
Prior to Velogic, Mr. Savoia was founder and General Manager of SunTest, a business unit of Sun Microsystems that developed and marketed award-winning Java testing tools for API, GUI and load testing.
Before sunset, Mr. Savoia, was Director of Software Research at Sun Microsystems Laboratories where, among other projects, he started and led the ADL (Assertion Definition Language) project, a highly successful, 3-year, $4 million, joint international research effort in automated test generation for object oriented systems.
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