Performance Testing Overview

Before starting to understand about  Performance Test life cycle  we  need to understand  What is Performance Testing 

What is Performance Testing 

This is non functional testing basically performed to analyse and determine performance of application under heavy load. Performance testing measure quality attribute  of the system such as scalability , reliability and resource usagehere.

What are the Performance Testing Techniques 

Load Testing:-Performed to understand analyse performance of application under heavy load. 

Stress Testing:-  This is basically performed to measure upper limit of application.

Endurance Testing:- Performed to measure system behavior under continuous load

Spike Testing:- performed by increasing the number of users suddenly by a very large amount and measuring the performance of the system.


Performance Testing Lifecycle.