Re: where to do performance/load tests for adwords applications

2012-03-28 Thread Ewan Heming
Hi Sun, I think that you really need to build a mock that periodically throws the rate limit exception, then build your app to deal with the possibility that it could happen at any time. I believe that Google doesn't actually publish such limits because they depend on what the overall server lo

Re: where to do performance/load tests for adwords applications

2012-03-27 Thread H Sun
Hi All, Thanks for the replies. The challenge is to figure out what a realistic throughput we can expect from AdWords API before it returns RateExceededError. For example, if my goal is to update 1M keywords per hour. I can easily mock the API to support that throughput rate, but I suspect t

Re: where to do performance/load tests for adwords applications

2012-03-27 Thread Anash P. Oommen
Hi Sun, IMO, the best thing to do would be to mock out the AdWords API endpoint - e.g. setup a local server that sends mock responses for your SOAP requests and use that to emulate various conditions - e.g. a delay of 2 minutes to download a report, a rate exceeded error if you perform more tha

Re: where to do performance/load tests for adwords applications

2012-03-21 Thread Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)
There's some documentation on the RateExceededError : http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2010/06/better-know-error-rateexceedederror.html Pete -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/g