TESTING E-COMMERCE SITE SCALABILITY WITH TPC-W
Daniel A. Menascé · Int. CMG Conference · 2001
Being able to assess the scalability of Web and e-commerce sites is a challenge. The Transaction Processing Council (TPC) recently released a benchmark for e-commerce sites. This benchmark, called TPC-W, measures a system under test using Web Interactions per Second (WIPS) as its primary metric. This paper describes the benchmark's main features, the authors’ experience in building a TPC-W compliant ecommerce site and a workload generator for TPC-W. It also presents performance metrics and an analysis of self-similarity obtained with the TPC-W site.