Performance testing using SoapUI

We have already seen in Chapter 1, Introduction to SOA Testing, how to create a performance testing script using SoapUI so let's move on further from there.

We have four load generation strategies in SoapUI:

• Simple
• Thread
• Variance
• Burst

Let's go through each of them in detail.

Simple strategy: This strategy addresses three types of performance test:

• Baseline test
• Load test
• SOAK test

The simple strategy generates a specific amount of virtual user load on the application with a ramp up time between each thread to give breathing space to the application under test.

Following screenshot shows the configuration window where the setting for the simple strategy is set.

The following window is common for each strategy type but works differently for each load generation strategy:

Let's take a detailed look at the previous screenshot:

• Threads: To specify the amount of virtual user load on the application in the preceding example we have used five threads which means...