Ways to do Load Testing for Web Service Made for iPhone Application

Question

Hello All...

It's something strange I am posting here, as I have little bit confusion since last few days..

I have made a web service in asp.net 3.5 using MSSQL 2005 as backend, for my iPhone Application.

Now, My Database have some critical fields like longitude and latitude, based on this almost all my web service is working.

Currently I have entered around 200 records to my db, and it's working fine in iPhone Device.

So, my question is what are the ways to test my web service for around 25,000 records, and what are the ways to fill some dummy data to critical fields like Longitude and Latitude ?

Answer 1

Use the Visual Studio test edition to create load tests for the web service.

A simple sql script should be able to fill dummy data for you. I am not sure about valid Longitude/Latitude values, but google should find you a list of values of places in the world that can be converted.

Answer 2

If you have access to a linux machine, you can use Apache Bench which is a really simple load tester. You can specify what url to hit with what frequency and what concurrency.

If you care about testing the performance, you should have a different machine generate the load.