Robust tool in one of the conditions of successful performance testing.
Performance testing is a type of testing that determines how the components of a system
work in certain circumstances.
Software performance testing is a broad term that includes different types of testing: load testing, stress testing, volume testing, etc. Such testing does not indicate defects in the program but sets the work standard for the program. Performance testing determines such parameters as speed, scalability, stability, resource usage under the conditions of a certain load.
What is the performance testing tool? This is a tool that generates customized activity on the system to evaluate software performance.
Important criteria for choosing a tool:
- Replay the recorded business application/script support. The script allows you to simulate the actions of a real user and thus create a script for the operation of new business processes. Record availability allows the tool to connect to the browser and record the real interactions between the product and the user, and thus improve this scenario.
- Availability of testing environment. Test environment - this environment is identical to the one in which the product will work, for each tested product created their test environment. Therefore, the tool should have enough resources and capacities to create a large number of testing environments. If the tool doesn't have such the feature, it will not be able to generate the required amount of traffic for your product.
- Tool efficiency. This parameter means how many virtual users tool will be able to generate on one test working device. The higher this parameter, the more virtual users the tool can create. If you have a large business, you should pay attention to this indicator.
