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Performance Testing in Transaction Processing Systems

publish date: 1969/12/31 00:00:00 UTC

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For transaction processing systems, performance tests are usually designed around what metric?

The number of transactions per second that the system can process

The physical memory consumed by each transaction

The number of concurrent database connections

The number of lines of code executed per transaction

Correct Answer

The number of transactions per second that the system can process

Explanation

For transaction processing systems, performance tests are designed around the number of transactions per second (TPS) the system can handle. This metric directly reflects the system's capacity to serve users and is typically specified in the system requirements as a minimum acceptable rate.

Reference

Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, 10th edition

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