Low Intensity Performance Testing
Doing low intensity performance testing helps you find performance bottlenecks in the initial phase of development itself thereby reducing the cost and effort that would be required when the performance issue is discovered in the later phases of the release.
- Net End-to-End time : It is a measured time of interactions with the server and a client such as a browser or a device. Time taken over the network is also taken into account. Typically, this does not include think time or processing time by the workbench.
- Net Server time : It is a sum of the time of interactions with the server and the network. This time does not include client (browser or device) time, think time or processing time by the workbench.
- On App time - It is a measured time of interactions on the client (browser or device) itself.
- Off App time - It is a sum of the time of interactions with the server and the network. The time spent on the client is not taken into account.
Using a transaction might give you data about the response time taken by a transaction. However, it would be more useful if you knew that that response time for a transaction is at the expected level. The end users would have already defined response times for each business task in the service level agreement. So, you can define those performance requirements in the tool and check whether the measured response time adheres to the agreement. The Performance Requirement report displays information whether the transactions adheres to the performance criteria.