Plan Your Scale Test

Define Testing Goals

• Identify key performance indicators (KPIs): Determine what metrics are most important for your application. Common KPIs include response time, throughput, and error rates.
  
• Set realistic objectives: Define what you want to achieve with your tests. For example, you might want to ensure that your application can handle 10,000 concurrent users without performance degradation. You sync Playwright scripts from GitHub. Playwright scripts are used for automating web browser interactions, primarily for end-to-end testing. These scripts are executed within a Playwright environment, separate from the browser’s page environment.
  
• If you’re testing an Agentforce implementation, ensure that the chatbot responses are quick and accurate.
  

Understand Your Application

• Application architecture: Familiarize yourself with the architecture of your application, including the components, their interactions, and any dependencies.
  
• User workflows: Identify the key user workflows that you want to test. This will help you create realistic test scenarios.
  

Gather Requirements

• Business requirements: Work with business stakeholders to gather their requirements and expectations. This ensures that your tests align with business goals.
  
• Technical requirements: Define the technical requirements for your tests, such as the number of users, the type of load, and the duration of the test. Consider the specific needs of Agentforce, such as agent interactions and chatbot performance.
  

Develop a Test Plan

• Scale Test’s Test Plan Creation feature analyzes live production data to identify the slowest and most frequently used pages, APIs, and Lightning components. Use this during peak hours to uncover hot spots and use them to drive test design.
  
• Test scenarios: Create detailed test scenarios that cover the key user workflows and business requirements. Identify the most common user paths and potential outliers that you don’t want to miss. Instead of testing isolated pages or APIs, build end-to-end user journeys that incorporate these hot spots. For example, a journey might start at the Home Page, navigate to Account View, and then perform an Opportunity Update. This approach ensures your tests reflect realistic workflows and focus on the most critical parts of your application.
  
• Test data: Plan the test data you will use, ensuring it is representative of real-world data. Ensure that your test data accurately reflects the variety and volume of data found in production.
  
• Test environment: Set up a test environment that closely mimics your production environment. Verify that your test environment's settings and integrations align with your production setup.