

What is load testing?

It would be a mistake for QA tester to define load testing only as a generic term for stress and performance testing. Load testing is the process of subjecting the application under test usual workload conditions in order to get information about normal system behavior. The goal of load testing is not to crash the application under test, but learn how the system would continuously work. That’s why load testing sometimes called as longevity or endurance testing. Examples of load testing include testing a web server with constant load or continuously sending print jobs to printer. There are many load testing tools available on market from open source projects like JMeter, OpenSTA or commercial software for example LoadRunner or SilkPerformer.

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