An efficient performance testing of web services

To simulate the concurrent users' workload, this paper proposes a performance testing approach and novel average performance measuring (APM) metric for assessing the web services performance. It extracts the response time, throughput, and response code metrics information to build an efficient performance-related issues identification approach that detects performance faults earlier with less effort or expense. Multiple open-source and commercial performance testing tools are used in the information technology (IT) industry to analyze the performance of web services. Practitioners rely only on either response time or throughput metric to evaluate the performance of web services, which is not sufficient for a comprehensible performance testing of web services. Our proposed performance testing approach is more convenient and straightforward to perform performance testing of web services. Moreover, experiment results show that the proposed APM metric is efficient in the evaluation of performance testing approaches.