From the course: Performance Testing Foundations
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Understanding bottlenecks
From the course: Performance Testing Foundations
Understanding bottlenecks
- [Instructor] Sometimes as testers, we can find problems and file defects but the defect never gets addressed. This can lead to frustration as a tester but I think sometimes what is happening is that we aren't finding the important things. This is common throughout testing and performance testing is no exception. If we find issues in one area while another area is in much worse condition, we aren't really helping the team add value as quickly as they could be. Performance testing in particular faces the challenge of bottlenecks. When you're performing an action there's a number of different areas where you can see that action. For example, you can see some slow down in the UI Code. Or maybe the UI Code is fine and there's some slow down in the communication that's happening as we go down to the Server-Side Code. Maybe the API's themselves are slow. Maybe the server-side calculations that are happening are slow.…
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