From the course: Performance Testing Foundations

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 25,300 courses taught by industry experts.

Stress testing

Stress testing

From the course: Performance Testing Foundations

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Stress testing

“

- [Instructor] Now that we understand how to use load testing in general, let's look at a specific type of load testing called stress testing. As we think about the test case creation model that we've been using, let's look at the factors that play into designing a stress test. The first thing that we want to think about in test design is what kind of loads you want to generate, and what we want to measure. So let's switch over to JMeter and get an understanding of what a stress testing load profile might look like. I have a load profile here that increases the number of users in a pseudo-exponential way. You could also do this with a more linear wet load if you wanted to, or some pauses along the way. Whatever you wanted. But essentially the point of this load is just to keep adding users until something that you care about goes wrong. So in this case I've only scaled it up to around 300 users, because this is a…

Contents