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Stress Performance Testing (SPT) best practices for web applications Summary This article focuses on the significance and meaning of performance for any enterprise scale web applications in today’s internet based arena, the performance test strategies and finally the best practice of Stress Performance Testing (SPT) which helps early detection of performance issues. Article also focuses on importance of stress performance testing (SPT), approach to plan and perform SPT for enterprise scale web applications. It mainly sheds light on a complete and standard approach for SPT for Web applications comprising both front-end and back-end modules. This article will provide Project managers, Test managers and IT architects a detailed overview of when and why SPT should be performed, what are the steps required, issues and challenges faced in different steps and what must be documented in the final SPT report. The article predominantly emphasizes the needs of performance test for web/enterprise applications in today’s internet based arena and how SPT helps identifying performance issues. Finally, a real-life business scenario (Web Portal Application) is used to elaborate the approach described in this article. Skill Level: Intermediate Supal K. Chowdhury (supal.chowdhury@) – IBM Advisory IT Architect Amitranjan Gantait (amitranjan.gantait@) – IBM Certified Senior IT Architect 10May2011 Objectives This article predominantly sheds light on SPT best practices, strategy and step-by-step guide for SPT planning and execution process. Readers will be familiar with: Importance of enterprise scale web applications in today’s internet based arena Why is performance so important for such applications How to measure the performance – what are the test strategies How can SPT help in prior determination of performance issues How to create SPT Plan Why and how to load test-data in SPT environment to increase reliability of the SPT result How to record manipulate test scr