1. A method for performance testing of web components using identity information, comprising: providing a web component for testing having business logic code and an associated authorization layer code; locating, using a processor, branches which are dependent on identity information in the authorization layer code and the business logic code; creating, using the processor, symbolic identities with claims or attributes having values corresponding to the branch options of the located branches; propagating the symbolic identities downstream from the branch locations through the authorization layer code and the business logic code; and analyzing, using the processor, performance of each symbolic identity.