PERFORMANCE TESTING CONCURRENT ACCESS ISSUE AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS – A CLASSIC CASE OF PRODUCER-CONSUMER

Concurrent access issue is one of the most frequently encountered issues in performance testing. The issue is a classic case of producer consumer problem where multiple clients try to access same code on the server at the same time, resulting in collision in accessing the code/data. Readily available solutions to producer consumer problem are applied with proper implementation to solve the above mentioned issue. Relative pros and cons of each solution are also discussed.