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Performance Testing

Performance testing checks a system's responsiveness, throughput, reliability, and scalability under workload. It identifies performance issues, confirms requirements, and checks capacity. Key aspects include scalability, stability, availability, serviceability, and speed. Common problems involve memory, code, and hardware/software. Types of performance testing are load testing, stress testing, endurance testing, spike testing, volume testing, and availability testing.

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Performance Testing

Performance testing checks a system's responsiveness, throughput, reliability, and scalability under workload. It identifies performance issues, confirms requirements, and checks capacity. Key aspects include scalability, stability, availability, serviceability, and speed. Common problems involve memory, code, and hardware/software. Types of performance testing are load testing, stress testing, endurance testing, spike testing, volume testing, and availability testing.

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Performance Testing

What is Performance Testing


• Refer to the test activities on checking system performance. It is
conducted to determine the responsiveness, throughput, reliability of
scalability of a system or application under a given workload.
Objectives of Performance Testing
• To confirm the validate the specified system performance requirements.
• To check the current product capacity to answer the questions from
customers and marketing people.
• To identify performance issues and performance degradation in a give
system.
Why Performance Testing
• SCALABILITY: will the application handle the expected load and
beyond?
• STABILITY: Is the application stable under expected and unexpected user
load ?
• AVAILABILITY: Is the application available to the end user without any
interruption?
• SERVICEABILITY: Can the system quickly recover from a failure?
• SPEED: Does the application respond quickly ?
• CONFIDENCE: Are you sure that clients will have a positive experience
on go live day ?
What Performance Problems may arise?
• Memory Related Problems:
i. Application uses more memory than it should
ii. Memory Leaks
iii. Excessive garbage allocation i.e application create a lot of temporary objects.
• Code Related Problems:
i. Application Algorithm are not optimal and there are performance bottlenecks.
• Hardware/Software Related Problems:
i. Hardware you select for your database is not in vendor hardware list
• Response Time:
i. After a request is sent to an application response time measure how long
it take for a response to return back from the application
ii. Slow response time equals an unhappy user experience and may also
result in the lose of revenue.
• Throughput:
i. The amount of transaction produced over time during a tests.
ii. Its also expressed as the amount of capacity that a website or application
can handle.
Types of Performance Testing
• Load Testing
• Stress Testing
• Endurance Testing
• Spike Testing
• Volume Testing
• Availability Testing
1) Load Testing
• It help us to study the behavior of the application under various loads. The
main parameter to focus is response. This study reveals how the
application handles concurrent user affectively.
• Response Time
2) Stress Testing
• It help us to observe stability of the application. The main intention is to
identify the breaking point of the server. The main parameter to focus is
throughput (how much data is being transferred b/w client and server.
• Response time and throughput
3) Endurance Testing
• It reveal about memory utilization when you load your test for prolong
executions. Say if you execute your test 1 hour to perform load testing.
But in endurance testing you execute your test at least for 8 hours with
significant load.
• Memory
4) Spike Testing
• Spike testing is performed by sudden increase/decrease in load and
observing the behavior of the application can handle or not under
significant changes in the load.
• Response Time
5) Volume Testing
• It is the performance to identify whether the server can handle more
number of high complex queries under significant load. The main
intention is to observe how the database acts under various circumstances.
• Response time of queries
6) Availability Testing
• This test ensure that the applicant is available 24x7x365 days. If you
would have noticed any website hosting providers they advertise as 99 %
up time. Availability testing help us to determine whether the application
is up and running fine without any issues.
• Response Time

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