Software Architecture with Spring 5.0

A load test example

Load tests are used to check how an application will behave once it is used for a determined number of concurrent users; the number of concurrent users is given for the number of users that the application will have in production. You should always define a performance test suite that tests the whole application with tools such as the following:

• Neoload
• Apache JMeter
• Load Runner
• Load UI
• Rational Performance Tester

We need to define a load test and profile as part of a pipeline of our applications, and run it before and after we work on performance improvement. We are going to create an example using Neoload to review these key recommendations in our application example.

First, we need to define a scenario to run a load ...