ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION IN SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE TESTING WORKLOAD MODELING

Abstract

Software Performance Testing(SPT) is the kind of Non-Functional Testing(NFT) to prove the to be delivered system by the project team/product team is working as expected with respect to system health, consistency, endurance robustness etc. This testing is a very critical part of system going live. Now a days customers/stakeholders are very keen to carry on this test to get absolute confidence to the software product they are going to use for their business. It has been seen several instances in the history of software industry ,live application has been demoted or scrapped due to the system not able to behave as it is expected with its features and functionalities when the system is used concurrently in high load .This type of verification can be only simulated when we do performance testing. Now workload distribution for performance testing till date has been generally performed by manually capturing load details like list of very frequently performed critical transactions, no. of call/hours, no. of concurrent users running from the log or details from business. And it’s a laborious time consuming job. With the advent of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) we can overcome the drawbacks of manual hurdles workload model with a futuristic reusable and reliable one, about which I discussed in following sections.