Performance testing is normally conducted to ensure that the application design does not result in performance issues and that code is properly tuned. Performance testing is completed to ensure that infrastructure does not result in poor response time for the application and that the infrastructure does not break when load is put on it. Performance tests should either be completed on the pre-production environment or production environment and against the fully sized database.
The Performance Testing objective is to verify performance behaviors and response time for specified business processes under varying work load conditions. The technique of performance testing uses modified data files to increase the number of transactions. Successful completion of performance test scripts without any failures and within the allocated time specifications is the target here. There are many different ways to go about performance testing enterprise applications. Benchmark testing, Capacity-planning Testing etc are some of the different methods of Performance Testing.
Performance testing can serve different purposes. It can demonstrate that the system meets performance criteria. It can compare two systems to find which performs better. Or it can measure what parts of the system or workload cause the system to perform badly. Ideally performance test efforts must begin at the inception of the development project and extend through to deployment. The later a performance defect is detected, the higher the cost of rectification. In performance testing, it is often crucial for the test conditions to be similar to the expected actual use.
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