Weave Load Test Plan/WeaveLiveUserLoadTestPlan

Overview

The load testing of the weave services, will rely on synthetic load generation against the server with concurrent live testers performing user sync operations and measuring the sync response times and ensuring basic weave operations are performing well. The live testers will be deployed over a number of geographical locations to measure the actual response times from a number global locations.

Perquisites

• 10 testers located evenly in serveral geographic locations (north/south america, europe, africa, asia, australia)
• Tester should have access to 2 different firefox supported platforms (linux, win7, mac OSX 10.6)

initialization

1. Install version 3.5.10 Firefox browser on one system and 3.6.4 version of the Firefox browser on the other.
   1. Firefox 3.5.10 download is located here
   2. Firefox 3.6.4 download is located here
2. startup the browser with a clean profile on each system
   1. Instructions for starting the browser with a clean profile is located here
3. Install the latest weave sync addon in each of the browsers
   1. Install the latest weave sync client from this location
   2. Register with the weave services
   3. Instructions for installing and registering with the weave service is located here
4. On one of the Firefox browsers start creating sync data
   1. Browse to many sites
   2. Add lots of tabs
   3. Bookmark a number of urls
      1. add tags
      2. add toolbar bookmarks
   4. add login/passwords to pass protected sites (encrypted)