What is Performance Testing

Question

Can someone help me with what is performance testing? What are the key points that are tested?

Answer 1

Performance testing is used to determine whether a system performs in terms of responsiveness and stability under a certain load or not. Perfomance testing methods consists of:

• Testing site behavior at or beyond the limits of its anticipated workload (Stress testing)
• Testing of website performance when multiple users login to it (Concurrency testing)
• Testing the behavior of your site when the additional workload is given continuously (Endurance testing)
• Testing the ability to work within or just above the acceptable period (Stability testing)
• Testing of website performance by increasing the data volume  in the database (Volume testing)
• Testing site behavior at increasing workload (Load testing)
• Page load speed testing