Performance Testing 101

Introduction

• Performance testing helps to evaluate a system based on certain conditions such as heavy load, high traffic etc…
• Performance testing helps to identify the system bottleneck and helps to fix it before it reaches to production.
• Performance testing also helps to provide resource allocation.

Type of Performance Testing

• Load testing – Testing heavy loads such as large numbers of concurrent users or high data volume for the system to test to identify the benchmark
• stress testing – Pushing the system beyond normal operating capacity to test its limits and identify breaking points.
• scalability testing – Evaluating the system’s ability to scale up or down in response to changing user demand and workloads.
• Endurance testing – Measuring system performance over an extended period of time to identify potential memory leaks or performance degradation.
• spike testing – Testing the system’s behavior and performance when subjected to sudden and significant increases in user traffic or data volume.
• volume testing- Testing the system’s ability to process large volumes of data.
• concurrency testing – Testing how well the system performs when multiple users access it at the same time.