This presentation tells about interesting facts about IRCTC and the lessons to learn for performance testers.

1. INTERESTING FACTS
ABOUT IRCTC
PERFORMANCE FRONT –
LESSONS FOR
PERFORMANCE TESTERS

2.  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

3.  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

4.  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

5.  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

6.  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

7.  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

8.  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

9. THANK YOU!
NAVEENKUMAR NAMACHIVAYAM