Information & Technology Management Standards

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Load Test Results

Load testing (also known as Stress testing) is primarily used to test the capacity of the infrastructure. The goal of Load testing is to ensure that the infrastructure can cope with the anticipated peak demand for the application along with the peak demands of the other production applications. Load testing identifies problems in the infrastructure that can occur when applications are subjected to peak demands.

The Ministry ADE process recommends that the whole process of Load Testing (which includes Test Plan creation, Test cases design, Test execution, Test results review and action) is the responsibility of the Development Organization (such as CGI) for the Application. It is highly recommended that the Testing team be different than the development team. Ministry Technical Team (IMG) will provide necessary access to the Load Testing environments for the Load Testing team. Ministry IMG may be monitoring the CPU and other resource consumptions during the entire Load Testing process as it takes place. The load testing team must coordinate with the Ministry IMG DBA and Middle Tier teams so they can be available to monitor and identify potential problems during the load testing period.

The Ministry ADE process recommends that pre-established Load Test cases are preserved and saved in a readable format and at an accessible location, so that the test cases could be re-used for doing re-testing in future during application changes, infrastructure migrations, etc. without having to re-design the test cases from scratch.

Template		Contact
	Load Test Results has no template		Senior Application Architect

Deliverable Reviewers

IMG Reviewers		Other Typical Reviewers
	Senior Application Architect
	Enterprise Architect
	Senior Database Analyst
	Senior Application Hosting Analyst
	Web Tier Hosting Analyst

Related Deliverables

Prerequisite Deliverable		Successor Deliverable
	Testing Strategy

Related Standards

Load Testing Process (PDF, 88KB).