Adaptive load generation

Abstract

A method provides for a series of procedural steps in the determination of the state of operation of a computer web application responding to requests by a multiplicity of client machines. The procedural steps are accomplished by use of a plurality of load generators which apply loading to the web application simulating the actual loading of any one of the client machines. One of the load generators is selected to increase its load by an incremental loading. A further load generator is employed in the place of a probing client machine for observation of the performance of the web application. At the probing client machine, there is an observing of the transactions per second (TPS) and response time of the web application, the observing taking place both before and after the application of the load increment to the web application. Thereupon, by logic analysis of the presence or absence of an increase in the TPS, as well as a presence or absence of an increase in the response time, a determination is made as to whether the web application has attained its full capacity or whether the load generator has attained full capacity, the latter case requiring a utilization of a further one of the load generators for further loading of the web application.

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