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Account for User Abandonment

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Author: Scott
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Summary:

When you adopt overlapping users as a load testing input parameter and fail to account for user abandonment you run the risk of creating loads that are highly unrealistic and improbable… You should simulate user abandonment as realistically as possible. If you don’t, you’ll be creating a type of load that will never occur in real life — and creating bottlenecks that might never happen with real users. At the same time, you will be ignoring one of the most important load testing results: the number of users that might abandon your Web site due to poor performance. In other words, your test might be quite useless. This How-To addresses issues related to modeling and implementing user abandonment in your performance tests.

Objectives:

* Learn how to incorporate user abandonment into the workload model
* Learn how to design and code scripts to simulate user abandonment
* Learn how to integrate abandonment statistics into performance reports

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