Assessing the overall performance of interactive application services

摘要

A performance monitoring system In which a test apparatus sends a test message of a non-realtime messaging service. The test message is formatted for a defined interactive application service. The test apparatus determines content of an expected reply message; the relationship between the content of the expected reply message and the content of the test message corresponds directly with service logic of the defined interactive application service. The test apparatus uses a predefined matching criterion to compare contents of received messages of the non-realtime messaging service to contents of the expected reply message and identifies a received message as an associated message If the matching criterion Is met. The associated message is used to generate a measurement indication for evaluation of current overall performance of the defined interactive application service.