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Load test
o Determines the 1 Is not designed to
throughput required to primarily focus on speed of
support the anticipated response.
peak production load. 2 Results should only be
o Determines the used for comparison with
adequacy of a other related load tests.
hardware
environment.
o Evaluates the
adequacy of a load
balancer.
o Detects concurrency
issues.
o Detects functionality
errors under load.
o Collects data for
scalability and
capacity-planning
purposes.
o Helps to determine
how many users the
application can handle
before performance is
compromised.
o Helps to determine
how much load the
hardware can handle
before resource
utilization limits are
exceeded.
o Helps to determine
what kinds of failures
are most valuable to
plan for.
Capacity test
• Provides information • Capacity model
about how workload can validation tests are
be handled to meet complex to create.
business requirements. • Not all aspects of a
• Provides actual data that capacity-planning
capacity planners can model can be
use to validate or validated through
enhance their models testing at a time
and/or predictions. when those aspects
• Enables you to conduct would provide the
various tests to compare most
capacity-planning
models and/or
predictions.
• Determines the current
usage and capacity of
the existing system to
aid in capacity planning.
• Provides the usage and
capacity trends of the
existing system to aid in
capacity planning
Activity 2. Identify
Performance Acceptance • Client expectations • Performance-testing
Criteria • Risks to be success criteria
mitigated • Performance goals
• Business and requirements
requirements • Key areas of
• Contractual investigation
obligations • Key performance
indicators
• Key business
indicators
Activity 7. Analyze
Results, Report, and • Task execution 1 Results analysis
Retest results 2 Recommendations
• Performance 3 Reports
acceptance criteria
• Risks, concerns,
and issues