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Contents
LOAD & PERFORMANCE TESTING ..................................................................................................... 16
1 STRESS, LOAD, SOAK, SPIKE TESTS LOAD PROFILES ................................................................................. 17
2 LNP TESTING LIFE CYCLE................................................................................................................... 18
3 EXAMPLES OF LNP TESTING OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................... 19
3.1 RESPONSE TIME...................................................................................................................................... 19
3.2 RELIABILITY............................................................................................................................................ 19
3.3 CONFIGURATION SIZING ........................................................................................................................... 19
3.4 CAPACITY PLANNING ............................................................................................................................... 19
3.5 REGRESSION .......................................................................................................................................... 20
3.6 BOTTLENECK IDENTIFICATION ................................................................................................................... 20
3.7 SCALABILITY ........................................................................................................................................... 20
BPEL PM: INTRODUCTION ............................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1 BPEL PM PROCESS TYPES ....................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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2 TERMINOLOGY ...................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
3 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASYNC & SYNC BPEL .............................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
4 SOA 11G CONFIGURATION FILES AND LOG FILES LOCATION ............................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
5 DEFAULT DATA SOURCES ......................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
6 PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE ....................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
7 WHAT TO TUNE .................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
8 SYSTEM SETUP ...................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
9 IMPORTANT POINTS ............................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
10 REFERENCE......................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
JVM TUNING ................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1 PAUSE TIMES AND THROUGHPUT .............................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1.1 GARBAGE COLLECTION VS. THROUGHPUT ...................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1.2 DEFRAGMENTATION PAUSES AND THROUGHPUT ............................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2 PERFORMANCE AND MEMORY FOOTPRINT .................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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4 JROCKITS TUNING ................................................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
4.1 BOARDING INTO SHIP STEP 1 .................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
4.1.1 Heap Size ............................................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
4.1.2 Garbage Collection............................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
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4.2.1 Lazy Unlocking ................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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4.2.3 Large Pages ........................................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
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5.1 GARBAGE COLLECTION STRATEGIES .............................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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6 WHERE TO SPECIFY JVM AND ITS PARAMETERS ............................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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7.1 JAVA.LANG.OUTOFMEMORYERROR: JAVA HEAP SPACE ................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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7.3 JAVA.LANG.OUTOFMEMORYERROR: UNABLE TO CREATE NEW NATIVE THREAD.... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
7.4 JAVA.LANG.OUTOFMEMORYERROR: REQUESTED XXX BYTES FOR CHUNKPOOL::ALLOCATE. OUT OF SWAP SPACE
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7.5 ANALYSIS ................................................................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
8 REFERENCE .......................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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3.2.1 Automatic Testing .............................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
3.3 ENABLING CONNECTION CREATION RETRIES................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
3.4 ENABLING CONNECTION REQUESTS TO WAIT FOR A CONNECTION ..................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.

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3.7 LIMITING STATEMENT PROCESSING TIME ...................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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3.11 LOGGING LAST RESOURCE ......................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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BPEL ENGINE TUNING ..................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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2.1 DISPATCHER MAXIMUM REQUEST DEPTH...................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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3.2 BPEL EJBS ............................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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3.4 WEBSERVICE READ AND CONNECTION TIMEOUT ............................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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3.6 WLS TIMEOUT PARAMETERS ....................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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3.6.2 Idle Connection Timeout: .................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
3.6.3 Tunneling Client Timeout................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
3.6.4 Post Timeout ...................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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5 BPEL ENGINE DATABASE SCHEMA ............................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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7.6 SOCKET ADAPTER ...................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
8 BPEL PM MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTIES ................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
8.1 INSTANCE KEY BLOCK SIZE........................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
8.2 AUTOMATIC RECOVERY ATTEMPTS ............................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
8.3 DISABLE BPEL MONITORS AND SENSORS ...................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
9 BEST PRACTICES: BPEL PROCESS/COMPOSITE/COMPONENT............................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
9.1 LARGE PAYLOADS ...................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
9.2 PERSIST ONLY THE FAULTED BPEL INSTANCES................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
9.3 DO NOT VALIDATE INCOMING XML .............................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
9.4 IDEMPOTENENCY ....................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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10.1 INITIALIZATION PARAMETERS ..................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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10.4.1 Enable SecureFiles for SOAINFRA schema ....................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
10.4.2 Enabling Encryption ......................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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11 REFERENCE......................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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BPEL RECOVERY CONSOLE OPTION ............................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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1 BEFORE LNP TEST .................................................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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1.5 WLS-DATASOURCE-<<MANAGEDSERVER>>................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1.6 BPEL PM-<<MANAGEDSERVER>> .............................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1.7 TECHNOLOGY ADAPTERS............................................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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2.2 JVMS HEAP USAGE, GARBAGE COLLECTION AND ANY MEMORY LEAK IF ANY ........ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.3 DATABASE CONNECTIONS AVAILABILITY AND USAGE ........................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.4 AVAILABILITY OF PERIPHERAL RESOURCES LIKE JMS QUEUES, AQ AND THEIR USAGE PATTERN .... ERROR! BOOKMARK
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3.1 GET FULL DUMP OF FEW IMPORTANT TABLES.................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
3.2 EXECUTE SQL QUERIES AS AND WHEN REQUIRED ............................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.

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3.4 ANALYSIS OF SOA SERVER MEMORY USAGE ................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
4 REFERENCE .......................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
LNP TEST CASE DESIGN AND LOAD TEST SELECTION ......................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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APPENDIX B: AUDITING IN BPEL PM ................................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.

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CHATTING BPEL PROCESS (CALL BACK) ....................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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11 DURABLE AND TRANSIENT PROCESSES ON SAME MANAGED SERVER/CLUSTER...... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
12 STICKY LOAD BALANCER ......................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.

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APPENDIX D: SQL QUERIES .............................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1 EM CONSOLE SQL QUERIES ..................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1.1 RECOVERY CONSOLE QUERIES ...................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1.2 RECENT FAULT AND REJECTED MESSAGES QUERY ............................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1.3 RECENT COMPOSITE INSTANCE QUERY........................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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1.5 INSTANCE TAB PAGE SEARCH QUERY BASED ON NAME VS TITLE QUERY ................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1.6 FAULT AND REJECTED MESSAGE TAB PAGE QUERIES ......................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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2.1 STORED PROCEDURE TO CONVERT BLOB IN STRING .......................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.2 QUERY TO FIND PERCENTAGE OF FREE SPACE .................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.3 QUERY TO FIND THE WAIT EVENTS FOR LGWR USING ITS SID ........................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.4 QUERY TO MONITOR REDO BUFFER ALLOCATION RETRIES................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.5 SQL STATEMENT TO RECLAIM SPACE AFTER PURGING....................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.6 QUERY TO FIND OUT TOTAL SESSIONS ON A DATABASE ..................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.7 QUERY TO FIND OUT UTILIZATION OF PROCESSES AND SESSIONS IN A DATABASE ... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.8 FIND OUT THE PROCESS INSTANCE FROM A CONVERSATION ID WHEN THERE IS NO INSTANCE NUMBER SHOWING IN
THE LOG FILE (BPEL INSTANCE ID FOR A TIMES OUT ITEM) ....................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.9 QUERY TO GET AUDIT DETAILS FROM AUDIT_DETAILS TABLE .............................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.10 QUERY TO GET AUDIT DETAILS FROM AUDIT_TRAIL TABLE ............................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.11 QUERY TO GET XML MESSAGE WITH THE GIVEN INSTANCE ID ......................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.12 QUERY TO GET XML MESSAGE WITH A GIVEN INSTANCE NAME........................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.13 QUERY TO GET PAYLOAD SIZE OF MESSAGE ................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.14 QUERY TO GET EXECUTION TIME OF BPEL INSTANCES .................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.15 QUERY TO GET THE EXECUTION TIME OF BPEL INSTANCES AND TO FIND THE PARENT THAT HAS INITIALIZED THE
COMPOSITE ....................................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
2.16 QUERY TO IDENTIFY ALL THE FAULTS FOR THE MESSAGES THAT WERE SITTING IN BPEL ENGINE LEVEL RECOVERY AS
UNDELIVERED INVOKES ........................................................................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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APPENDIX F: ORA-01438: VALUE LARGER THAN SPECIFIED PRECISION ALLOWED .... ERROR! BOOKMARK
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APPENDIX G: LOBS IN THE SOAINFRA SCHEMA ................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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4 AWR REPORT ANALYSIS ......................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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4.5 SQL STATEMENTS ORDERED BY EXECUTIONS .................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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APPENDIX I: MONITORING SCRIPTS ................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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3 AQ MONITORING .................................................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
APPENDIX J: HOW TO MONITOR SOA SERVER MEMORY USAGE ....... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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APPENDIX K: HEAP DUMP FILES ANALYSIS: JROCKIT AND HOTSPOT JVMS ....... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT
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1 CAPACITY PLANNING FOR BPEL PM .......................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.

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1.3 IDENTIFYING BOTTLENECKS ......................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1.4 IMPLEMENTING A CAPACITY MANAGEMENT PLAN .......................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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Exhibits
Exhibit 1: Stress, Load, Soak, Spike Tests Load Profiles ................................................................ 18
Exhibit 2: LnP Testing Life Cycle and SDLC .................................................................................... 19
Exhibit 3: BPEL Processes ................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Exhibit 4: JVM Tuning Tradeoffs ...................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 14: SOAWorkManager - 1 .................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 17: WLS Muxers ................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 23: Dynamic Memory Service .............................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Exhibit 24: BPEL Engine Threading Model ....................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 32: BPEL EJBs - 1 ................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 34: BPEL EJBs - 3 ................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Exhibit 35: Global transaction timeout at WLS Domain Level - 1 .... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 43: SOA Infrastructure level audit tuning - 1 ....................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 45: AuditConfig - 1 ............................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 50: Payload Validation - 1 .................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 52: AuditStorePolicy - 1 ....................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 54: Logging Tuning - 1 .......................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 58: MDS Purging - 1 ............................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 60: Stuck Thread Timer Interval - 1...................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 63: Data Display Option for EM Console - 1 ........................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 66: Un-Target DMS from servers - 1 .................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 71: BPEL recovery console option - 1................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Exhibit 72: BPEL recovery console option - 2................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 73: vmstat ............................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.

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Exhibit 82: WebLogic Homes ........................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Exhibit 83: Synchronous Asynchronous - 1 ................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 85: Database Monitoring ..................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 88: Setup jConsole or visualVM (installed locally) - 1 .......... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Exhibit 92: Heap Dump Files analysis - 1 ......................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Snippets
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Tables
Table 1: AuditLevel........................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Table 3: AuditStorePolicy ................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Load & Performance Testing

Tuning is never a one-size-fits-all proposition or a one-off configuration change. Rather, it is an
iterative process of monitoring and tuning.
The goal of Load and Performance (LnP) testing is to appraise any user (human and machine)
experience in realistic scenarios on target application. It will also facilitate resource (computers
and associate infrastructure) capacity planning and assessment.
LnP testing has several flavors - Load, Stress, Peak Load, Capacity testing and all are based
on business requirements. LnP testing requires the simulation of real life scenarios running
against target application. Scenario designing for LnP testing is a major task.
For LnP testing of BPEL PM at least two scenarios must be considered:

Standalone BPEL PM (not connected to service clients and providers)

Fully connected BPEL PM (connected to service clients and providers)

While reporting LnP results one should publish BPEL PM results and End to End connected
system.
Why is application so slow?
Highlights performance bottlenecks in hardware, network and software
Reduce hardware , network and software costs by predicting application scalability and
capacity
Does system comply with business requirement?
Helps to establish realistic service level agreements (SLA)
Helps in setting up expectations from system
Verifies that system meet specified performance requirements and avoid issue in production
What will happen as business grow?
Allows simulating various type of load to analyze system reaction (What-if conditions)
Helps in anticipating changes and evolution of business needs
The thing is, it has to be realistic
Load profile is pattern of load exerted on application under LnP testing. Choosing load profile
decides nature of test. For Stress test, load profile should be of moderate load for extended
period while for peak load test requires incremental load till application breaks.
If LnP testing is not performed well incorrect load, duration, and analysis, one can end up with
a performance false negative or a performance false positive. A false negative is breaking of
the application under certain conditions which are not realistic (like loading an application
beyond business and performance requirements).
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On the other hand, if load is not sufficient and one reports application is working file under load
but in reality application is never loaded sufficiently. This is false positive.
The cost of both false negative and false positive is huge. While designing load scenarios and
analysis, one need to be very careful to discount false negatives and false positives.

1 Stress, Load, Soak, Spike Tests Load Profiles

Stress Test is conducted to find limits of the application performance and break point. In
this test load on the application is increased in linear fashion over time.

Peak Load Test is conducted when business requirements are very well understood. In this
case load is ramped up and plateaued for agreed upon level (generally at peak of busiest
business activities). At this level load is maintained for agreed upon duration and then ramped
down.
The agreed upon height of plateau and duration of plateau is an equilibrium which signifies
that application must perform satisfactorily under these conditions which are above normal
but below designed.

Soak Test is conducted to find out memory leak or similar issues which may arise when
application is loaded with more than normal load and for extended duration.

Spike test is conducted to find out applications behavior in case of sudden spike in load. In
this case load is for very short duration but beyond maximum design capacity. In spike test
ripple effects of spike are analyzed.

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Exhibit 1: Stress, Load, Soak, Spike Tests Load Profiles

2 LnP Testing Life Cycle

LnP testing life cycle is not confined to SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). LnP testing
efforts seeps into maintenance phase of application as well because of ever changing business
and technical environments. With time business requirements change change in business
results in increased/decreased load and change in load pattern. With introduction of new
applications on same hardware and network also changes technical landscape.
Holistically LnP Testing Life Cycle (LnP TLC) may be depicted as:

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Exhibit 2: LnP Testing Life Cycle and SDLC

3 Examples of LnP Testing Objectives

3.1 Response time

How long does it take to complete a BPEL process/composite under given load patterns?
How long does it take to complete a business process under given load patterns?

3.2 Reliability

How stable is the BPEL process/composite and/or BPEL engine under given load
patterns?
How long BPEL process/composite and/or BPEL engine can sustain under a given load
pattern?

3.3 Configuration sizing

Which configuration provides the best performance level under given load pattern?
What are optimized configurations under various given load patterns?

3.4 Capacity planning

At what point does performance degradation occur under given load pattern?
What is the performance degradation patterns under given load patterns?

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3.5 Regression

Does a new version of the composite/process adversely affect response time?

Does a new version of the composite/process adversely affect throughput?
What is the effect of addition of newly added composite/process on response time of
already deployed composites/processes under given load pattern?
What is the effect of addition of newly added composite/process on throughput of
already deployed composites/processes under given load pattern?

3.6 Bottleneck identification

What is the cause of the degraded response time?

What is the cause of the degraded throughput?

3.7 Scalability

How far the BPEL process/composite and/or BPEL engine can grow to handle future load
volumes?
What type of scalability is possible vertical or horizontal or both?
How many BPEL process/composite can be deployed on a given BPEL engine under
given/expected load conditions?

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