The Applications of Pressure Test in the B/S System

Pressure test is an essential work of Web application performance test and one of the important means to ensure software quality and performance. Pressure test can find a lot of unexposed problems under normal circumstances, which means that it can find more system bugs than others. Pressure test tests the load conditions of system, devises test scheme for the system performance indicators and verifies whether the system performance indicators meet the established target or not through the test results. This paper comprehensively investigates the pressure test in the case of a typical B/S system-Reporting Platform. By adopting the software performance testing concept and considering the impact factors on system function and evaluation index system of website operation, we carried out pressure test over the Reporting Platform Web site using VSTS (Full life-cycle management tools: Visual Studio 2005 Team System) testing tools and developed a process for conducting such tests. In depth analysis of the results of the pressure test, we found the bottlenecks which impacted the system performance, so as to lay the foundation for optimizing, adjusting the system and improving the system performance.