One of our customers, SignalFive, recently published a case study about a project they did with Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection.
The project, called the Repower America Wall, involved a massive, Flash-based interface in which thousands of user-created images and videos could be scanned through at high speed.
In the case study, they describe how they calculated the estimated site traffic and decided to use cloud services, such as Amazon and YouTube, to help the site scale. However, before launch they still needed to prove to the customer that the site was ready:
While this stress-testing was valuable, and optimizations were made based on them, none of these techniques truly simulated real-world use. Typically, a testing environment such as Selenium IDE might be used. But since the UI of the wall was built in Flash, things got tricky.
Because of the rich Flash interface, traditional load testing services based on simple HTTP protocol simulation weren’t well-suited. For that reason, they came to BrowserMob. Using our real browser technology, we were able to load the entire UI, allow the background AJAX and AMF calls to take place, and even stream the various videos:
BrowserMob’s team helped us craft some tests which we ran on the dev and production servers. The information was invaluable — based on the test results, we decided to upgrade the production server, and doubled its memory.
Below is some of the load test charts SignalFive generated using our software:
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