System administrators can use these data to develop capacity planning models that work with the user's COTS equipment and server configuration tools. Rhobot's four-phase methodology starts with test planning. The test plan identifies the hardware that the user will employ and the transactions to be tested. Testing is enhanced with scripts that mimic realistic network applications. Script development is the second phase of a load testing program.
Script development varies from user to user.
Customers can license the tools necessary to create application scripts automatically or can have Promark assist them. The Rhobot program is the base product. It controls the playback of each script. Rhobot software is platform-specific. For example, versions are available for Oracle and Sybase data bases and World Wide Web servers.