Patent ID: 7328134

Claim:
A system to generate test data for load testing a computer system, comprising: a forecast maintaining a predicted volume of transactions and a predicted mix of transactions for the computer system; an application list maintaining a list of at least some applications of the computer system, the application list related to participation of the at least some of the applications in load testing; a generator operable to generate a list of transactions for testing the computer system, using the predicted volume and mix of transactions maintained by the forecast and based on the applications identified by the applications list; a transaction set maintaining a set of transactions employed by the system, each transaction including an instruction portion and a data portion, and a data set maintaining data for the data portion of the transaction, and wherein the generator generates the list of transactions to a test file further using the transaction set and the data set, wherein the generator selects the transaction set from a plurality of transaction sets, whereby the test file generated by the generator contains transactions based on the selected transaction set.