A synthetic workload generation technique for stress testing session-based systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 868-882

  Krishnamurthy, Diwakar ^a   Rolia, Jerome A ^b   Majumdar, Shikharesh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Internet applications; Measurement techniques; Modeling techniques; Performance of systems; Software engineering; Testing tools; Web servers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEB SERVICES;

INTERREQUEST DEPENDENCIES; SYNTHETIC WORKLOAD GENERATION TECHNIQUE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33947314958     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2006.106     Document Type: Article

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