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Via my blog, I am going to share basic tutorials on Performance Testing and Performance Testing tool JMeter. This post will give the introduction to performance testing and further post will give overall idea on JMeter - An open source performance testing tool. Looking forward for your continuous support. Let's being the game!!
What is Performance Testing?
Performance Testing has emerged as one of the important process in the domain of Software Testing. Importance on performance testing clearly indicates that sector has moved to the next level of giving importance to quality of service and application within the stipulated time. When everyone can give the product on the right time, who gives the quality product has become the major concern. Performance testing will enable the organization to deliver quality service to the clients. The performance testing can be defined as,
"Performance testing is the process of testing an application in terms of Speed, Stability and Scalability"
The term speed indicates, how quick the application respond to the request sent to it.Application can be either a standalone application or the application that has been hosted on the web. In general speed of an application is measured in terms of Response time. The term response time can be defined as
"Response time can be defined as the time interval between the first request sent to the application and the last response received from the application"
The term stability indicates, how stable the application responds when the number of access gets increased. Stability is measured by increasing the number of users accessing the application. Application should respond in the same manner as the number of users get increased. In general, stability test is called as Stress testing.
The term scalablity indicates, how stable the application will be if the number of users get increased and decreased automatically. Most of the cloud application is stable in nature, the number of request will increase and decrease automatically. The application should respond to all the request in the same manner as it responded earlier. This type of measure is called as Load testing.
These are the basics of performance testing.
These basic fundamentals of performance testing can be experienced using an Open source automation tool called JMeter. JMeter from apache foundation will help the user to do performance testing, stress testing and load testing.
In my next post, we will be seeing about introduction to JMeter and step by step procedure to install JMeter in the local machine(desktop or laptop).
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Praveen Kumar Rajendran
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ReplyDeletei have a doubt that what's the diff between jmeter and selenium??