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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Towards Low Cost and Smart Load Testing as a Service Using Containers
Authors : Berrak Alara Baransel, Alper Peker, Hilmi Omer Balkis, Ismail Ari
Published in: Intelligent Technologies and Applications
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Providing end-users with high quality e-commerce, online communication, education services requires careful performance monitoring, tuning and prediction under heavy traffic loads. To address this issue, we propose and evaluate a novel methodology using Docker containers for load testing. Our experience over several benchmarks, local machines vs. Cloud, and web servers suggest that load testing as a service requires a multi-dimensional optimization over slave counts, network latencies, bandwidth, and traffic patterns and there are opportunities for learning these parameters that can later be modelled into a smart load testing algorithm, with machine learning at the driver seat. Beyond the ease and speed of deployment, containers and cloud also provide a low cost alternative to load testing; we completed our cloud experiments by spending only $10. The only disadvantage of public clouds can be their centralized nature and distance to real customer bases.