What is the best way to simulate the real behavior of a web based system?
It may seem obvious, but the best way to simulate real behavior of a web based system is to simulate user actual behavior, and the way to do this is from an actual browser with test functionality built inside. The key to achieving the kind of test accuracy that eValid provides is to understand that it’s the eValid browser that is doing the the actual navigating and processing. And, it is the eValid browser that is taking the actual performance timing measurements. eValid employs IE-equivalent multi-threaded HTTP/S processing and uses IE-equivalent page rendering. While there is some overhead with injecting actions into the browser, it is very, very low. eValid’s timers resolve to 1.0 msec and this precision is usually enough to produce very meaningful performance testing results.
