Category Software Testing

What is performance testing?

“Performance testing is defined as the technical investigation done to determine or validate the speed, scalability, and/or stability characteristics of the system under test.” Types of Performance testing Performance test Load test Stress test Spike test Capacity Test Soak/endurance test…

IP Switching and Load Testing

IP Switching in Load testing The most common use for IP Switching is when load testing against a load balancer. Load balancer typically use the IP address to route requests to a particular Web server in the farm. So if…

Saving perfmon data

If you are using perfmon tool in windows, you may sometime want to save the data for future analysis. To accomplish this you need to follow the following steps.   Launch the perfmon tool.  To open Performance Monitor, click Start,…

Load Testing using The Grinder

Introduction The Grinder is an open source load testing tool. The Grinder uses Jython scripts and the scripts are executed using agents which can be distributed over the network. Property file is used to define tests and load. The Grinder…