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Performance testing

Performance testing

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Performance testing

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- When developing software, it's not only expected to work, but it's expected to work in a reasonable amount of time. Think of how frustrated you become when trying to complete a task within an application and the page takes forever to load or crashes when it attempts to handle your requests. These are due to performance bugs. And software development teams try to avoid these as much as possible. The software architect is careful to consider the three Ss of performance when creating the development plan. Those are stability, speed, and scalability. After the developers have completed implementing the features, performance tests can be run to ensure those features are void of performance issues. Load testing is a type of performance test that measures if the application can handle the number of expected users it will have. The architect may have defined an acceptable threshold that the team is expected to support. And…

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