BLoad and Performance Testing
Load and performance testing are concerned with the performance efficiency quality characteristic, and essentially deal with the SUT’s time behavior or its speed and resource utilization—i.e., the verification of predefined performance limits [Bath & McKay 14].
This chapter focuses on testing server applications.
When working with other types of applications—for example, standalone applications such as single player games—conventional test automation with additional monitoring, profiling, or logging can be used, and it is often sufficient simply to perform a manual test with targeted observation of the resulting response times. Response times can also be extracted from log file entries. When testing a data warehouse, ...
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