Load Testing Process

What is Load Testing?

Load testing determines the behavior of the application when multiple users use it at the same time. It is the response of the system measured under varying load conditions....

Load Testing Techniques

Stress testing: Testing the system’s ability to handle a high load above normal usage levels Spike testing: Testing the system’s ability to handle sudden spikes in traffic Soak testing: Testing the system’s ability to handle a sustained load over a prolonged period of time Tools for Performance Testing: Make use of specialized load testing tools like Locust, Gatling, JMeter, LoadRunner, and Apache Benchmark. These tools assist in gathering performance measurements and simulating a large number of users. Specify the Test Objectives: Clearly state what your load test’s goals are. Recognize the required response times, transaction volumes and expected user behavior. Determine Crucial Situations: Determine the essential user scenarios that correspond to common usage patterns. A variety of actions, including user logins, searches, form submissions and other significant interactions, should be covered by these scenarios....

Objectives of Load Testing

Evaluation of Scalability: Assess the system’s ability to handle growing user and transaction demands. Find the point at which the system begins to function badly. Planning for Capacity: Describe the system’s ability to accommodate anticipated future increases in the number of users, transactions and volume of data. Making well-informed decisions regarding infrastructure upgrades is made easier by this. Determine bottlenecks: Identify and localize bottlenecks in the application or infrastructure’s performance. Finding the places where the system’s performance can suffer under load is part of this. Analysis of Response Time: For crucial transactions and user interactions, track and evaluate response times. Make that the system responds to changes in load with reasonable response times. Finding Memory Leaks: Find and fix memory leaks that may eventually cause a decline in performance. Make sure the programme doesn’t use up too many resources when it’s running....

Load Testing Process

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Metrics of Load Testing

Metrics are used in knowing the performance of load testing under different circumstances. It tells how accurately the load testing is working under different test cases. It is usually carried out after the preparation of load test scripts/cases. There are many metrics to evaluate the load testing. Some of them are listed below....

Load Testing Tools

Apache Jmeter WebLoad NeoLoad LoadNinja HP Performance Tester LoadUI Pro LoadView...

Advantages of Load Testing

Load testing has several advantages that make it an important aspect of software testing:...

Disadvantages of Load Testing

To perform load testing there in need of programming knowledge. Load testing tools can be costly. Load testing also has some disadvantages, which include:...