Types of Performance Testing

Performance Testing – An Introduction

The term Performance can mean measuring response time, throughput, resource utilization, or some other system characteristic ( or group of them), by varying the number of users.

Performance Testing answer the below questions -

• Does the application respond quickly enough for the intended users?
• Will the application handle expected user load and beyond?
• Will the application handle number of transactions required by the business?
• Is the application stable under expected and unexpected user loads?
• Are you sure that users will have a positive experience on go-live day?

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Types of Performance Testing

Load Testing: Load Testing is done in order to check when the application fails by increasing the number of users and keeping the system resources as constant.

Stress Testing: Stress Testing is done in order to check when the application fails by reducing the system resources such as RAM, HDD etc. and keeping the number of users as constant. This is done to find out the breakpoint of an application.

Endurance (Soak) Testing: Endurance Testing is determining the system’s sustainability on a specified user load for long duration of time (may be for number of days).

Volume Testing: Testing where the system is subjected to large volumes of data. Testing which confirms that any values that may become large over time (such as accumulated counts, logs, and data files), can be accommodated by the program and will not cause the program to stop working or degrade its operation in any manner.