Learning and Technology

With the ongoing technology advancements and digitization, everyone is trying to go online. The web traffic is increasing day by day. And this directly impacts on an application’s performance. Load testing of an application has become a necessity now. An application must be at least accessible or one may say stable up to 5,000 users.    Conducting a load test manually requires a lot of human and machine efforts, which increases cost. To overcome this cost. A lot of automated performance software’s are made, which I have already discussed in my previous post .  Before working on any of the automated software, one should first understand the load testing process. Here in this post I will be sharing the process of load testing using HP LoadRunner . You may find similar words like Plan, Create, Define, Run and Analyze as presented in the functional testing process (QTP). So the theme remains same and the parameter(s) varies with the type of testing you are about t...

Being a part of software industry for many years, I have came across multiple group of people having diverse thoughts. Being a QA I often share my experiences with fellow colleagues and friends. One important question whose answer is typically vague and not convincing to me is over the ‘LOAD / STRESS TESTING’.  Recently I was engaged in a project which requires load testing, so I shoot a message in my social and professional circle to know, if anyone can suggest and guide me over a good tool. I was little shocked to hear most of the replies that they have never performed a load testing activity. Okay I admit load testing can be expensive, but being an expert and experienced resource in the field and still have no knowledge is quite unpleasant for me (No offence to anyone). So there I pull my socks up, grab a cup of tea and started little research over the top available load testing tools. Here I will be sharing my recommendations and experiences over the top load testing tools...