I work with SoapUI project and I have one question. In following example I've got 505 requests in 5 seconds with thread count =5. I would like to understand how count has been calculated in this example.
For example, if I want 1000 request in 1 minute what setting should I set in variance strategy?
Regards, Evgeniy
variance strategy as the name implies, it varies the number of threads overtime.Within the specified interval the threads will increase and decrease as per the variance value, thus simulating a realistic real time load on target web-service.
How variance is calculated : its not calculated using the mathematical variance formula. its just a multiplication. (if threads = 10 and variance = 0.5 then 10 * 0.5 = 5. The threads will be incremented and decremented by 5)
For example:
Threads = 20
variance = 0.8
Strategy = variance
interval = 60
limit = 60 seconds
the above will vary the thread by 16 (because 20 * 0.8 = 16), that is the thread count will increase to 36 and decrease to 4 and end with the original 20 within the 60 seconds.
if your requirement is to start with 500 threads and hit 1000 set your variance to 2 and so on.
refrence link:
chek the third bullet - simulating different type of load - soapUI site
Book for reference:
Web Service Testing with SoapUi by Charitha kankanamge