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Importance of baseline testing over SLA's

Why we are comparing Performance test results with base line if we already have SLA's?

How they will be related- For example:

  • Transaction response time in main test is 3 seconds
  • SLA for same transaction is 5 second
  • Baseline for that transaction was 2 seconds

How to compare these?

Solution

  • If time is over SLA - you have a critical production issue that need to be address.

    If time is over baseline - your server suffer from performance degradation and it need to be analyse,but in lesser importance

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    Any user action where the response time seems to be higher than expected can be traced, monitored and checked to determine if their are any inefficiencies.

    • As the workload is increased, the performance tester can look to see how the response times of transactions deviate from the baseline as the workload increases.