Modeling a realistic workload for performance testing

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 149-158

  Lutteroth, Christof ^a   Weber, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; LOAD TESTING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANALYSIS MODELS; FORM PARAMETERS; OVER LOADS; REALISTIC WORKLOADS; RESPONSE SYSTEMS; TEST MODELS; USER BEHAVIORS; WEB APPLICATIONS; WORKLOAD MODELS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 56649100755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDOC.2008.40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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