Methodology
Load and performance testing that simply works

Load test standards - DIN 66273 / ISO 14756
The main purpose of a load measurement is to ensure the quality of a specified target system. Professional quality assurance, however, requires dependable quality assurance procedures. DIN 66273, the German industry standard since 1993, defines a precise approach to such load measurements. Its application is a key ingredient to ensuring the comparability and reliability of quality assurance measures. However, DIN 66273 is generally considered to be complicated. Simpleworks therefore developed a tool-supported technique. This approach enables our customers to perform load tests that conform to DIN quality requirements in a simple and cost-effective manner.

Defining a quantity structure
Perhaps the biggest challenge for a good load test is determining a realistic load profile. Simpleworks has developed a tool allowing the complexity of a scenario to be captured automatically and condensed down to the vital core factors. This is especially viable when there is little or no experience with user behaviour during productive operation. Beyond that, our consultants are trained to identify (together with the customer’s specialists, the data required for the simulation – namely on the basis of professionally deduced information. This approach clearly differentiates us from the competition. It’s normal for many load test providers to establish the quantity structure without a precise derivation and base decisions about subsequent measures on estimates. In contrast, Simpleworks’ specially developed methodology enables us to carry out realistic load tests that are comprehensible for the customer and commercially justifiable from start to finish.

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