Determine the Right Test Duration

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Choose test duration based on the performance question being answered. A short smoke run can validate a script, while a longer run may be needed to observe steady-state behavior, resource growth, or reliability under sustained load.

Common duration patterns

• Smoke validation: short run to confirm the scenario and performancedata testswork.
• Baseline isrun: aenough functionaltime testto operatesreach asteady usestate caseand ascapture arepresentative singlemetrics.
• Endurance virtualrun: userlonger once.execution Aused performanceto testobserve operatesstability and resource trends.

Before interpreting results

1. Exclude ramp-up and ramp-down periods when analyzing steady-state performance.
2. Confirm the userun casehad inenough multiplevalid concurrentlysamples running virtual users. As a functional test,for the Controllermetric windowbeing showsreviewed.
3. Document environment, load model, data, and duration with the duration of each step measured in milliseconds. result.

After AIQ operates a test use the Analyze button from the Start Screen to view the test details. Choose the execution from the list. The Moving Average chart shows a moving average of transaction times through the duration of the test.

The Transaction Distribution chart shows the times to operate each transaction through the time of the test.