AN IMPROVED PERFORMANCE TESTING TOOL FOR FINANCIAL APPLICATIONS

摘要

The present invention provides a n-tier architecture for a performance based testing tool and an associated method for trading and financial applications. The performance benchmarking tool of the present invention is configured to create multiple load generating clients, monitor and control it through a single agent process. The invention determines latencies of individual subsystems by subscribing to ticker plants and allows for online monitoring of latencies and controlling of multiple clients based on predefined message types.