We would like to thank the volunteers that participated in Thursday’s stress test. We want to share the results:
Concurrent Users to simulate peak hour of tax season:
- Goal: 8,000 – 10,000
- Actual: 1,872
Returns prepared for the purpose of generating calculations and rendering PDFs
- Goal: 24,000
- Actual: 3,651
Discoveries
Your testing resulted in generating errors that resulted in errors generating a PDF. This allowed our infrastructure engineers and developers to analyze the error messages, understand the cause of the error, and make modifications to the code.
Stress Test 2:
- When: Saturday, December 8th at 11:00 AM EST
- Goals: 8,000 – 10,000 users to generate 24,000 returns
Purpose: To simulate peak hours during tax season and analyze any errors or anomalies seen. This allows us to make any necessary changes during December.
We cannot do this without your help. We need approximately 10% of all VITA/TCE volunteers to spend 90 minutes with us to allow us to monitor the application and infrastructure that you will be experiencing with your taxpayers during peak week in February.
Experience it first in December.