INTERESTING FACTS AB OUT IRCTCPERFORMANCE FRONT – LESSONS

FOR PERFORMANCE TESTERS

1. IRCTC booked more than five lakh tickets on

August 12, the highest-ever tickets booked in a

single day

Higher Throughput

Higher Transaction Per Second

Increase in number of concurrent users

Load/Stress testing is required

2. IRCTC, a subsidiary of railways, has invested

about Rs 11 crores to strengthen and upgrade its

ticketing website for facilitating booking of more

tickets.

Capacity Planning

ROI

Infrastructure Testing is required

3. The average daily booking was around 3.85 lakhs

last year 2012-13, which has now become 4.30 lakhs

daily.

Increase in number of concurrent users

Higher Throughput

Higher Transaction Per Second

High CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization

Load, Stress, Endurance and Volume testing is

required

4. IRCTC has also taken a slew of measures for

smooth running of its system like blocking of agents

during the initial two hours of booking from 8 AM to

10 AM and Tatkal ticket booking from 10 AM to 12

hrs respectively.

Batch Processing

Spike Testing is required

5. preventing illegal booking through automated

software by touts and thus making the system

available only to the individual users during this

period, which draws the maximum rush

Security testing

Load Testing

6. IRCTC is revamping its site by increasing the

booking rate to 7,200 tickets per minute from its

existing capacity of around 2,000 tickets

Increase in throughput

Load/Stress Testing is required

Augmenting the capacity to handle 1.2 lakh users

at any point of time as compared to its existing

40,000 users.

Spike Testing is required

THANK YOU!

NAVEENKUMAR NAMACHIVAYAM