advanced · testing
Load Testing Before Launch
You have two weeks before a launch you expect to be 10× your current traffic. How do you load test it?
Practical scenario
A product launch is expected to bring 10× current traffic for about four hours. The team has a staging environment at a quarter of production size and a load-testing tool nobody has used in a year.
What it tests
- • Knowledge that different test shapes answer different questions
- • Awareness of what makes a load test unrepresentative
- • Whether the candidate knows what a passing test does not prove