Category:
Performance Testing
- Server Infra – Replicating a number of physical servers at each application tier in test env is a real challenge.
- Network Infra – Preparing the servers network infra is possible with some efforts but deploying the test servers on production servers locations is a hard thing to do.
- Number of Application Tiers – Test environment should have the exact number of application tiers as the production environment to achieve the accurate results which is also a challenge.
- Database Size – A database with different size will not be able to generate accurate test results.
- Load Injection from Different Geographical Locations – simulating users’ locations is also important to achieve proper test results.
- IP Spoofing Implementation – In few cases, load balancing is implemented based on the IP addresses. Users are distributed on different servers based on their IP addresses and if all incoming requests are from the same IP address, they will be directed to a single server and hence load balancing will never be observed.