USSD Load/Performance Testing !!!

[K A S H]

Hi All,

Can we do performance testing on USSD channel? In different telecom
organization, USSD channel is being used, can any body guide me that
how can we use Load runner for that? Is there any solution implemented
already within industry ?

Waiting for your quick response.


Regards,

Kashif

[Floris Kraak]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:24 AM, K A S H <kashif...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can we do performance testing on USSD channel? In different telecom
> organization, USSD channel is being used, can any body guide me that
> how can we use Load runner for that? Is there any solution implemented
> already within industry ?
>

I presume you mean this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Service_Data
?

Regards,
Floris
---
'What does it mean to say that one is 48% slower? That's like saying
that a squirrel is 48% juicier than an orange - maybe it's true, but
anybody who puts the two in a blender to compare them is kind of
sick.'
--- Linus Torvalds

[K A S H]

Yep true,
I mean this but I have to go for Load-performance
testing of this channel. My question is still there.

Regards


On Oct 28, 2:54 pm, Floris Kraak <randa...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Floris Kraak]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:04 AM, K A S H <kashif...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>               I mean this but I have to go for Load-performance
> testing of this channel. My question is still there.
>

You can find the answer to that question yourself. Start the virtual
user generator, create a new script, look at the list of protocols.
Is USSD there?

If you're lucky maybe the MMS protocol does something vaguely
resembling what you need, but otherwise I think your answer is "no".

To be frank your best bet is getting some development support to do
these tests. What I've done in the past is ask development to build a
(very simple) custom web UI for testing a protocol that had no native
loadrunner support. You could do something similar. If that is no
option then perhaps there are some C or Java based libraries for this
protocol that you could import into your test script to gain the
required functionality.

However you bend it you have a challenge on your hands though ;-)

[K A S H]

Hey Floris,

Thanks for the reply. Yep, I know USSD protocol is not listed
and we can not go for it but I wz thinking to use SMPP protocol for
this.

Secondly, this would be an option to use UI developed and then we can
go for it (may be). The load creation is not a big issue here because
load/traffic can be generated by 2-3 methods which I have experienced.
The actual thing is monitoring and statistics provided by Load runner.
Load runner capability to monitor and generate reports is very high
thats why I was thinking to utilize Load runner in current scenario.

Thanks again.

Kashif

On Oct 28, 3:58 pm, Floris Kraak <randa...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Floris Kraak]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:08 PM, K A S H <kashif...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The actual thing is monitoring and statistics provided by Load runner.
> Load runner capability to monitor and generate reports is very high
> thats why I was thinking to utilize Load runner in current scenario.
>

That's funny, I just had a long conversation with a ex-colleague of
mine whom had developed his own statistics analysis framework based on
a mixture of R (http://www.r-project.org/) and custom code. He was
working with JMeter logs though - that tool's reporting and analysis
capabilities are frankly abysmal so he was sort of forced into that
situation. He wants to open source his tools too but hasn't done so
yet to date.

Anyway, good luck with your project I suppose. Can't really offer more
than encouragement really ;-)