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testing tool the investment firm was familiar with , but unfortunately it could not scale beyond 50,000 users , so the results were not reliable .
Having worked successfully with Testhouse before , the Qatari technology organization contacted them as their quality assurance partner , to load test the relevant applications again with a different tool .
Shalu Niyad , Assistant Vice President – Sales at Testhouse , explains : “ Our partnership provides access to a great talent pool and in the past we have demonstrated our ability to mobilize resources quickly and efficiently to meet challenges head-on .
“ We recommended a goal of 100,000 concurrent end users in the performance test , with each user opening four sessions to create a total of 400,000 concurrent sessions . Full system throughput monitoring ensured the application responded as expected .
“ One of the key objective of load testing was to measure the server utilization ( CPU and memory ) of web , application , and database servers and ensure the average utilization does not exceed 50 percent .
“ In addition , we wanted to avoid stock market operating hours , so that only gave us a limited window to execute our performance tests .” the Qatari technology consultancy it was agreed that a performance test of 100,000 geographically distributed users would be performed , to ensure the brokerage , stock exchange , and capital market applications could manage these numbers sufficiently . An initial test was done with a load
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Testhouse turned to Micro Focus and the combination of the two proved a winning one . With access to leading testing resources on-premises or in the cloud , Micro Focus was well-placed to support this largescale performance testing project . p
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