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Simulate Realistic User Delays

Content Type: How-To:
Author: Scott
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Summary:

Application users think, read, and type at different speeds, and it's the performance tester's job to figure out how to model and script those varying speeds as part the testing process. This How-To will explain all of the necessary theory about determining and scripting realistic user delays.

Objectives:

* Learn why realistic user delays are important to test results
* Learn how to determine realistic durations and distribution patters for user delay times
* Learn how to incorporate realistic user delays into test designs and test scripts

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