- LCDS Performance, Load and Stress Testing

NeoLoad : Load testing solution for LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS)

NeoLoad is the software designed to load test Flex applications that use LiveCycle Data Services ES application services, realistically simulating users and analyzing your servers’ behavior. Thanks to its intuitive interface and advanced wizards, you will quickly be able to start using NeoLoad's exclusive features to:

• Automatic handling of your Flex / LCDS application’s dynamic parameters without the use of scripts.
• Intuitive analysis of your LCDS servers’ resources, thanks to the pre-configured monitors.
• Automatically generated reports that identify the critical points and hotspots.

• Add custom rules to correlate dynamic parameters and handle application’s framework.
• Debug mode to fine-tune your virtual users in more complex cases.
• Real-time monitoring of test runs (requests/responses for each V.U.).
• JavaScript Add-on’s for further customizing scenarios.

LCDS and Flex application loadtest Screencast

The following screencast shows you how you can perform a load test on your Adobe® LiveCycle® Data Services applications with NeoLoad®. Thanks to its Flex applications support, you will see in this 17 minutes movie that the test of an LCDS application, a Support Management Portal, is made easily.

You will discover:

• how NeoLoad works
• a short presentation of the Support Management Portal application
• a record of a test scenario with NeoLoad
• the parameterization of the recorded scenario
• the configuration of the server infrastructure monitoring
• run the load test
• analysis of the test results

Test Infrastructure

LCDS Server

• Platform Windows 2008 server 64bits. Quad Core CPU, 8Gb RAM.
• Tomcat v6.0.14 with maxThreads: 1000, session-timeout: 5mn.
• JVM 1.6.0_14 64 Bits. Heap: 4Gb.
• LCDS 2.6.1. NIO activated with StreamingNIOAMFEndpoint, connection-idle-timeout-minutes: 1mn.

Database Server

• Platform Windows 2008 server 64bits. Quad Core CPU, 4Gb RAM.
• MySQL 5.1. 1024 concurrent connections enabled.

NeoLoad controller

Platform Windows Vista. Quad Core CPU, 8Gb RAM.

NeoLoad Load Generators

Three Load Generators (free of charge) were used during the test, the one included in the Controller and two additional machines:

• Platform Windows 2008 server 64bits. Quad Core CPU, 8Gb RAM.
• Platform Windows Vista 32bits. Quad Core CPU, 4Gb RAM.

NeoLoad and Flex

NeoLoad v3 brings support of:

• Flex 3 for Web and AIR applications on user desktop,
• The AMF protocol (Action script Messaging Format) in version 0 and 3,
• Flex Messaging Service, allowing data push by polling, long-polling or streaming requests through HTTP,
• Externalized object transport,
• Flash Remoting objects content in Flex messages,
• AMFX, the AMF serialized XML format.
• Cairngorm Framework,
• Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES and Flex Data Services application services.

Furthermore, NeoLoad allows you to monitor LiveCycle Data Services ES (LCDS) application services during load tests, resulting in a speedier diagnosis of performance slowdowns.

Start right now by:

Downloading the trial version of NeoLoad.
Discover our dedicated Adobe Flex loadtesting section.
Contacting Neotys for further information.

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