Performance testing
Performance tests are the most widely used nonfunctional tests. They measure the responsiveness and stability of the system. The simplest performance test we could create is to send a request to the web service and measure its round-trip time (RTT).
There are different definitions of performance testing. In many places, they are meant to include load, stress, and scalability testing. Sometimes they are also described as white-box tests. In this book, we define performance testing as the most basic form of black-box test to measure the latency of the system.
For the purpose of performance testing, we can use a dedicated framework (for Java the most popular is JMeter) or just use the same tool we used for acceptance tests. ...
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