Performance testing types

Load testing

Load testing is the simplest anatomy of achievement testing. A bulk analysis is usually conducted to accept the behaviour of the arrangement beneath a specific accepted load. This bulk can be the accepted circumstantial bulk of users on the appliance assuming a specific bulk of affairs aural the set duration. This analysis will accord out the acknowledgment times of all the important business analytical transactions. If the database, appliance server, etc. are aswell monitored, again this simple analysis can itself point appear any bottlenecks in the appliance software.

editStress testing

Stress testing is commonly acclimated to accept the high banned of accommodation aural the system. This affectionate of analysis is done to actuate the system's robustness in agreement of acute bulk and helps appliance administrators to actuate if the arrangement will accomplish abundantly if the accepted bulk goes able-bodied aloft the accepted maximum.

editEndurance testing (soak testing)

Endurance testing is usually done to actuate if the arrangement can sustain the connected accepted load. During ability tests, anamnesis appliance is monitored to ascertain abeyant leaks. Aswell important, but generally disregarded is achievement degradation. That is, to ensure that the throughput and/or acknowledgment times afterwards some continued aeon of abiding action are as acceptable or bigger than at the alpha of the test. It about involves applying a cogent bulk to a arrangement for an extended, cogent aeon of time. The ambition is to ascertain how the arrangement behaves beneath abiding use.

editSpike testing

Spike testing is done by al of a sudden accretion the bulk of, or bulk generated by, users by a actual ample bulk and celebratory the behaviour of the system. The ambition is to actuate whether achievement will suffer, the arrangement will fail, or it will be able to handle affecting changes in load.

editConfiguration testing

Rather than testing for achievement from the angle of load, tests are created to actuate the furnishings of agreement changes to the system's apparatus on the system's achievement and behaviour. A accepted archetype would be experimenting with altered methods of load-balancing.

editIsolation testing

Isolation testing is not different to achievement testing but a appellation acclimated to call repeating a analysis beheading that resulted in a arrangement problem. Generally acclimated to abstract and affirm the accountability domain.