1. A method for scaling a workload, the method comprising: at a network equipment test device: generating a first workload comprising a plurality of messages associated with one or more transactions; determining one or more workload segments in the first workload, wherein each of the one or more workload segments represents one or more messages associated with a particular transaction; and generating a second workload using the one or more workload segments, wherein the second workload includes a number of the workload segments based on a workload scale attribute.