Abstract
In recent years, layer seven content switches (L7-CS) have become demand extremely on the Web sites around the world. Currently, it is a problem to accurately measure the performances of various layer seven content switches. Importantly, there is no widely accepted criterion for such tasks. Furthermore, the available tests don’t yield satisfactory stateful transactions, functional verification and emulation of real user behavior HTTP requests.This thesis proposes a model based on E-Commerce user behavior and incorporates cookie maintenance mechanism to address the insufficiencies in the testing of layer seven content switches. Based on this model, we further develop E-Commerce User Behavior Content Switch Testing System Module for realistic tests. This module has both self-scaling and self-configuring, meaning that it can scale the HTTP requests to any strengths and configure user behaviors to specific traffic characteristics. This module principally provides functional and accurate verification in principled ways to measure the entire characteristic of layer seven content switches.Finally, we define four standard units in the testing of layer seven content switches. We will also present tests using E-Commerce User Behavior Content Switch Testing System Modules and examine the testing environments procedures, and the results. The results show that the module is accurate and useful to evaluate the layer seven content switches under real Internet situations.