What is Performance Testing?

Published on Oct 12, 2022

It is a non-functional testing technique performed to determine the system parameters in terms of responsiveness and stability under various workload. The goal of performance testing is not to find bugs but to eliminate performance bottlenecks.

Load Testing
Checks the applications ability to perform under anticipated user loads. The objective is to identify performance bottlenecks before the software application goes live.

Endurance Testing
This is done to make sure that the software can handle the expected load over a long period of time.

Volume Testing
The large number of data is populated in a database and the overall software systems behaviour is monitored. The objective is to find software applications performance under varying database volumes.

Scalability Testing
The objective of the scalability testing is to determine the software applications effectiveness in scaling up to support an increase in user load.

Spike Testing
This tests the software’s reaction to sudden large spikes in load generated by the users.

Stress testing
This tests the software application under extreme workloads to see how it handles high traffic or data processing the objective is to identify the breaking point of the application.

Load Ninja
It allows you to quickly create script less sophisticated load tests, reduce testing time 50%, replace load emulators with real browsers, and get actionable, browser-based metrics, all at ninja speed.

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APACHE JMeter
JMeter is an open-source tool that can be used for performance and load testing for analysing and measuring the performance of a variety of services. This tools mainly used for web service applications.

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Web Load
It is an enterprise-scale load testing tool which features a comprehensive IDE, Load Generation Console, and a sophisticated Analytics Dashboard. Web LOAD has built-in flexibility, allowing QA and DevOps teams to create complex load testing scenarios.

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Load UI Pro
It allows you to quickly create script less sophisticated load tests, distribute them on cloud using load agents and monitor performance of your servers as you increase load on them.

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Load View
Load view utilises real browser-based load testing for websites, web applications, and APIs. Easily create multi-step scripts that simulate users interacting with your website or application.

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Neo Load
Neo load is an innovative performance testing platform designed to automate test design, maintenance, and analysis for Agile and DevOps teams. Neo load integrates with continuous delivery pipelines to support performance testing.

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Load Runner
Load runner is a software testing tool from Micro Focus. It is used to test applications, measuring system behaviour and performance under load. It can simulate thousands of users concurrently using application software.

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Silk Performer
Silk Performer tool is an enterprise class load and stress testing tool and can test multiple application environments with the thousands of concurrent users. It also supports the widest range of protocols.

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App Loader (AL)
App loader is a load testing solution designed for business applications. It allows you to test any application by reproducing the same user experience from all your access points: Thin, fat clients, and web portals.

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Smart Meter.io
It is an alternative to JMeter and aims to fix its drawbacks. It allows for easy script less test scenario creation using the so-called Recorder, yet still lets you make advanced edits of the test.

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