Akamai Technologies, Inc.
System and method for automated creation of a load test plan

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method for creation of a test plan for load testing a website includes receiving a set of input parameters, which includes a specified time period range. Beacon data of real user sessions on the website that fall within the specified time period range is retrieved from a data storage repository. A set of peak traffic time periods, which includes a peak day, a peak hour, a peak minute, and a peak second, is identified. User session statistics are calculated for the peak day, the user session statistics including median session duration, session length, and think times. A page group distribution table is generated that includes a list of all page groups and page group hit percentages, relative to all other page groups, for the real user sessions during the peak hour. A set of test scenario paths representative of the page group distribution table is then generated.