Understanding the Tests

The Appvance Test Methodology includes test goals that are encountered most often, however, with the fast pace of Internet application service building tools this list is not exhaustive. Test Name and Test Benefit are self-explanatory, but Test Type and Parameters related to the Scalability Index need an explanation:

• The test type is either stateful or stateless with each requiring a different strategy and meeting different goals

• Stateless Testing: is for services responding to each request independently from all other requests and checks the impact of concurrent requests and message payload size on a service

  Stateful Testing: this is similar to stateless testing, but the service provides data persistence, workflow transaction processing, message queuing, sessions, and/or data indexing

• The parameters related to the Scalability Index define the test inputs showing the Scalability Index – the usage pattern showing service performance expectations when in production

The Appvance method requires a series of steps to be followed, as is detailed in The Appvance Test Methodology.