Stress testing Pyramid is often required by customers to judge how they should plan their deployments for the expected increase in demand from a growing population of users. However, stress testing a platform like Pyramid is not a simple under taking, owing to various complicating factors. The guide outlines an approach to stress testing the Pyramid platform using tools like Apache JMeter. It provides a methodical, adaptive strategy that accounts for both the technical limitations of testing tools and the nuanced workflows inherent to Pyramid.
Stress Testing Guide
- This Stress testing document incorporates guidance for testing setup as well as detailed usage plans for using JMeter
Before attempting to stress the platform, users are advised to read the scaling guide as well, since it provides strategies of how to scale the footprint to achieve a framework to support a large user base.
Although JMeter was used in this document as the testing tool, the concepts discussed can be applied to other testing tools and frameworks.