Having defined the types of load testing, goals and terminology, you had a certain foundation to learn that the main problem in stress testing – to develop a model load.
To solve this problem it is necessary to determine the following:
The list of such problems must log operations that are critical from a business standpoint and from a technical point of view. Criticality in terms of business (and this is the main criterion) is the real impact of the deterioration of performance of such operations on business processes. For example, increasing the duration of customer service in the bank, the inability to perform the required number of operations during the day and so on. From a technical point of view – this is the most consuming operation server resources. As a rule – this is the operation performed by a large number of business users simultaneously or create sophisticated reports, which include the so-called "heavy" queries on the database. We would like to stress once again that the degree of criticality is the impact on business and operating systems, such as the creation of a report fully loading the database server at night, would not be a high priority for optimization, and during working hours it will have the highest priority.
Then I suggest you read the following sections, step by step, revealing the specifics of model development pressures: