Performance Testing
- One of the crucial factors that determine an application’s success is that it maintains stability, scalability, and speed in different load situations.
- To ensure this, performance testing is recommended as one of the software testing processes suited for multiple domains and platforms.
- Performance testing service uses a series of key performance indicator metrics such as response time, wait time, average load time, peak response time, error rate, CPU utilization, memory utilization, and other parameters for determining the performance quality of the application under specific load conditions.
- It can also serve to investigate, measure, validate or verify other quality attributes of the system, such as scalability, reliability, and resource usage.
Performance Testing Types
- Load Testing is conducted to evaluate the behaviour of a system at the increasing workload.
- Stress Testing is conducted to evaluate the behaviour of a system at or beyond the limits of its anticipated workload.
- Spike Testing is conducted to evaluate the behaviour of a system when the load is suddenly and substantially increased.
- Volume Testing is conducted to evaluate the behaviour of a system when a large amount of data is populated in a database.
- Scalability Testing is conducted to evaluate the behaviour of a system scaling up to support an increase in user load.
Top 4 Performance Testing Tools
