Facebook application load testing

Question

How can i make load testing to facebook application? Facebook prohibits the use of automated tools!!!

Answer 1

Is there a way to decouple your app from Facebook for the purposes of load testing? You can probably assume that the facebook platform can handle everything you throw at it, so you really just need to test your custom code. Once this works without any load problems, you should be good to go (assuming you can properly deal with unusual cases like facebook being down/the api being down).

Answer 2

You should just load test your code, not Facebook's. Your app should be an iframe app, so it shouldn't be hard to load test outside of the Facebook platform. Just disable the Facebook calls.

Facebook has a much bigger setup than you and can handle a much larger load than your load testing tools could probably generate. And if Facebook is having load issues, there is nothing you can do about it anyway.

I've been developing Facebook apps for about 3 years. Facebook does have issues fairly often, but there is nothing you can do in your app except add error capture, retry and/or recovery.