Performance Testing Overview

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Performance testing is a critical part of testing. Unfortunately, I think performance testing doesn't get as much love as functional testing. Yet, performance significantly impacts user conversions or a user's willingness to make a purchase. I hope to help set a solid foundation for performance testing in this article.

Nearly 70% of consumers admit that page speed impacts their willingness to buy from an online retailer. — Unbounce, 2019

Principles

• Testing must align with defined expectations.
• Results and testing must be reproducible.
• Results need to be readable and can be compared to stakeholders' expectations.
• Testing must run in an environment that resembles production as close as possible.
• Project timelines and costs should be taken into consideration.

Operational Profiles, Load Profiles, and Load Generators' OH MY'

Operational profiles specify patterns a user or a system component may use throughout a system. For example, performance tests may contain one or more…