Software Performance Testing

Performance Testing measures the effectiveness of the computer, network or any software application. Quantitative and qualitative testing is conducted to verify the performance of a software application. Quantitatively the application is tested for the response time upon certain input and qualitatively it’s checked for reliability, scalability and interoperability. To check the performance, stress testing is also performed to identify the stability of an application under certain level of load. It’s also checked if the application is self recoverable of not if treated beyond its threshold.

Performance Testing is conducted by using various tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, AstraLoad and WAPT. Performance parameters are defined for the application and results are analyzed on the basis of these parameters like “Response Time”, “Throughput”, “Transfer Rate” to name a few.