August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
9h 16m
English
Load tests are used to check how the system functions when there are a lot of concurrent requests. While a system can be very fast with a single request, it does not mean that it works fast enough with 1,000 requests at the same time. During load testing, we measure the average request-response time of many concurrent calls, usually performed from many machines. Load testing is a very common QA phase in the release cycle. To automate it, we can use the same tools as with the simple performance test; however, in the case of larger systems, we may need a separate client environment to perform a large number of concurrent requests.
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