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Reem
Reem

Reputation: 41

how can i measure stress testing for the iPhone app?

how can i measure stress testing for the iPhone app ? i need stress testing not performance testing, for example 100 users access the database of the app which is on the server at the same time. any help? thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (2)

CMerrill
CMerrill

Reputation: 1982

First, you need to decide if you need to test the client-side (iPhone) app, the server-side code, or both.

Testing ONLY the server-side, might make this much easier - especially if it is using HTTP to communicate with the server and exchanges data via a text-based format (XML, JSON, etc). There are many web load testing tools available which can handle this scenario. Using our Load Tester product, for example, you would configure the proxy settings on your iPhone to point to our software running on a local machine. Then start a recording and use the application. Load Tester will record the messages exchanged with the server. You can then replay the scenario, en masse, to simulate many users hitting your server simultaneously. The process, at a high level, is the same with most of the web load testing tools.

Of course, the requests to the server can't be replayed exactly as recorded - they'll need to be customized to accurately simulate multiple users. How much customization is needed will depend on the kind of data being exchanged, the complexity of the scenario and the ability of the tool to automatically configure dynamic fields (and this is one area where the abilities of the tools vary greatly).

Hope that helps!

Upvotes: 2

justin
justin

Reputation: 104698

A basic simulation would involve running your unit tests on OS X, using many simultaneous unit test processes (with unique simulated users, and other variables).

If you need more 'stress', add machines - you'll likely end up hitting io or network limits from one machine relatively early on.

Upvotes: 1

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