Simulating User Interactions: A Model and Tool for Semi-realistic Load Testing of Social App Backend Web Services

Philipp Brune

2017

Abstract

Many mobile apps today support interactions between their users and/or the provider within the app. Therefore, these apps commonly call a web service backend system hosted by the app provider. For the implementation of such service backends, load tests are required to ensure their performance and scalability. However, existing tools like JMeter are not able to simulate “out of the box” a load distribution with the complex time evolution of heterogeneous, real and interacting users of a social app, which e.g. would be necessary to detect critical performance bottlenecks. Therefore, in this paper a probabilistic model for simulating interacting users of a social app is proposed and evaluated by implementing it in a prototype load testing tool and using it to test a backend of new real-world social app currently under development.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Brune P. (2017). Simulating User Interactions: A Model and Tool for Semi-realistic Load Testing of Social App Backend Web Services . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-246-2, pages 235-242. DOI: 10.5220/0006248202350242

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist17,
author={Philipp Brune},
title={Simulating User Interactions: A Model and Tool for Semi-realistic Load Testing of Social App Backend Web Services},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2017},
pages={235-242},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006248202350242},
isbn={978-989-758-246-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Simulating User Interactions: A Model and Tool for Semi-realistic Load Testing of Social App Backend Web Services
SN - 978-989-758-246-2
AU - Brune P.
PY - 2017
SP - 235
EP - 242
DO - 10.5220/0006248202350242