HA testing | Test results to be collected and verified

Analyzing test results and solving performance problems

Collecting test results is as important as executing the test itself. Test execution can be useless if appropriate data is not gathered. What data and how much data should be gathered depends on the objective of the test case. Obviously, if you are in the process of troubleshooting a specific performance problem you may gather more data than the first time that you are executing a test case. The amount of data generated during a test case execution impacts the performance of the test case. As such, it is crucial to have the correct amount of logging/tracing and frequency of gathering data.

Note that in this chapter by the term test environment we mean the environment on which the test is run. It is possible that after successful testing this environment may actually be used or switched over as your production environment.