To determine a system component that causes performance degradation, which could later be optimized To check/prove that the system is capable of handling the expected load Quality assurance engineer performing the testing should determine what he/she is doing this for: Writing an effective test plan for performance testing is challenging in most cases, reason for that being a lack of specific testing goal.

To compare capacity of two or more systems or environments.ĭepending on the testing goal, different types of performance testing should be practised. Load testing: to analyze the system’s behavior under expected load. Stress testing: to determine the system’s throughput limits and overall behavior for a potential disproportional or extremely high load.While an expected number of virtual users simultaneously “attack” the system, it is easy to record the maximum response time of its major components and discover potential bottlenecks. This gives an idea about the maximum number of users the system could handle and how long this would take the system to recover after it fails.

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