Uma Abordagem de Análise do Tempo de Resposta para Teste de Desempenho em Aplicações Web

• Priscila Guarienti PUCRS
• Maicon Bernardino PUCRS
• Avelino F. Zorzo PUCRS
• Flávio M. Oliveira PUCRS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wtf.2014.22944

Abstract

The testing activity is usually very expensive and time consuming, since most of the time it is executed manually. To improve that, Model-Based Testing (MBT) has been used lately to generate testing artifacts automatically. The main contribution of this work is to investigate how MBT can be applied for performance testing, i.e. how to include timing constraints in UML diagrams and based on them to execute the tests automatically, and verify whether the constraints are met or not. Another contribution is the setting of service level agreements, i.e. set parameters to verify whether a system delivers answers based on pre-agreed values. We applied our whole strategy to a complete case study and measured its execution time, as well as discuss some of our results.

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