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Interview Questions with Answers On Load Testing

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Forum Name: LoadRunner @ OneStopTesting
Forum Discription: LoadRunner is a performance and load testing product by HP / Mercury Interactive for examining system behavior and performance, while generating actual load.
URL: http://forum.onestoptesting.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1613
Printed Date: 16Nov2024 at 8:01pm


Topic: Interview Questions with Answers On Load Testing
Posted By: poli
Subject: Interview Questions with Answers On Load Testing
Date Posted: 27Jun2007 at 12:19am

1. What criteria would you use to select Web transactions for load testing?

this again comes from voice of customer, which includes what are the very commonly used transactions of the applications, we cannot load test all transactions , we need to understand the business critical transactions , this can be done either talking.

2. For what purpose are virtual users created?

Virtual users are created to emulate real users.

3. Why it is recommended to add verification checks to your all your scenarios?

To verify the Fnctional flow....verification checks are used in the scenarios

4. In what situation would you want to parameterize a text verification check?

I think verification is the process done when the test results are sent to the developer, developer fixes that and the recitification of the bugs. Then testor need to verification of the bugs which is sent by him.

5. Why do you need to parameterize fields in your virtual user script?

need for parameterisation is ,for eg. test for inserting a record in table, which is having a primery key field. the recorded vuser script tries to enter same record into the table for that many no of vusers. but failed due to integrity constraint. in that situation we definetly need parameterisation.

6. What are the reasons why parameterization is necessary when load testing the Web server and the database server?

parameterization is done to check how your application performs the same operation with different data.In load runner it is necessary to make a single user to refer the page for several times similar in case of database server.

7. How can data caching have a negative effect on load testing results?

yes, data caching have a negative effect on load testing results, this can be altered according to the requirments of the scenario in the run-time settings.

8. What usually indicates that your virtual user script has dynamic data that is dependent on you parameterized fields?

Use the extended logging option of reporting.

9. What are the benefits of creating multiple actions within any virtual user script?

Reasuability. Repeatability, Reliability.

10. Load Testing - What should be analyzed.

To determine the performance of the system following objectives to be calculated.
1) Response time -: The time in which system responds to a transaction i.e., the time interval between submission of request and receiving response.
2) Think time -: Time

11. What is the difference between Load testing and Performace Testing?

Performance testing verifies loads, volume and response time as defined by requirements while load testing is testing an application under heavy loads to determine at what point the system response time degrades.



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