# Best Practice 16.6 – Develop mechanisms for simulating production load for analysis purposes Having a clone of production data in a test system allows system administrators to simulate production SAP workloads and conduct vital performance tests, such as stress and volume testing. This type of testing can help identify potential performance bottlenecks and prevent performance issues from occurring in a live production environment. **Suggestion 16.6.1 – Define performance sensitive activities** Evaluate which transactions, reports, and operational activities could have an impact on your business if they do not meet peak load requirements or time-critical thresholds. For example, an overnight batch job which must complete in five hours, or a customer-facing transaction accessed concurrently by thousands of users during a quarterly business peak. Document and agree on the measurement approach, KPIs, and success criteria for these workload activities. **Suggestion 16.6.2 – Create an automated test approach for key activities** If required, develop a test strategy to confirm that your SAP workload performance benchmarks are met. Evaluate how test landscapes and tools can enable a repeatable suite of tests to measure the impact of operational activities, change releases and major patching on the performance of your workload. ## See also * **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Well-Architected. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query wellarchitected` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).