A Study of Contemporary System Performance Testing Framework

Abstract

Performance testing is one of the vital activities spanning the whole life cycle of software engineering. As a result, there are a considerable number of performance testing products and open source tools available. It has been observed that most of the existing performance testing products and tools are either too expensive and complicated for small projects or too specific and simple for diverse performance tests. In this chapter, the authors present an overview of existing performance test products/tools, provide a summary of some of the contemporary system performance testing frameworks, and capture the key requirements for a general-purpose performance testing framework. Based on previous works, the authors propose a system performance testing framework that is suitable for both simple and small as well as complicated and large-scale performance testing projects. The core of the framework contains an abstraction to facilitate performance testing by separating the application logic from the common performance testing functionality and a general-purpose data model.