SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF LOAD TESTING RESULTS

摘要

A system for monitoring and evaluating the performance of a network accessib le application comprises one or more load servers (170), each of which is capab le of simulating the load imposed upon the application server (150) by one or more clients (130). The load servers (170) are configured to execute a particular sequence of server requests in order to evaluate the operation of the server (110) under the specified load. Various performance metrics associated with the operation of the network and the application server (150 ) are measured during the testing of the server (110), and these metrics are stored for later access by an analysis module (190). The analysis module (19 0) identifies those portions of the test data which are statistically significa nt and groups these significant parameters to suggest possible relationships between the conditions of the load test and the observed performance results .