{"id":1638,"date":"2018-12-16T14:15:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T14:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2025-03-07T08:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:27:54","slug":"load-testing-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/load-testing-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Load testing goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Load testing goals are:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/load-testing\/\">CLICK TO READ FIRST PART<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Response time for each and every transaction<\/li>\n<li>Performance of the system components under different loads<\/li>\n<li>Performance of database components and their behaviour with different volumes of data<\/li>\n<li>The network delay between client and server<\/li>\n<li>Software application design issues affecting the performance<\/li>\n<li>Server configuration like web server, application server issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The load testing specifies whether the software needs a fine tuning or modified for hardware and software to improve the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/functional-testing-non-functional-testing\/\">performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>The advantages of load testing are<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduces the cost of failure<\/li>\n<li>Improves scalability<\/li>\n<li>Increase customer satisfaction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Challenges of load testing:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Need of programming knowledge to use load testing tools<\/li>\n<li>Tools can be expensive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Load testing is carried out with the varying users to assess ability of the system to work properly. The performance of the software beyond the expected maximum workload can be tested. The load testing tools like HP Loadrunner can be used for testing the different load scenarios by gradually increasing and decreasing the user load on the system.<\/p>\n<p>For eg:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; test the system <a href=\"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/performance-testing\/\">performance<\/a> with 50 concurrent users<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ramp up(gradual increase in number of users) : 5 users every 2 min<\/li>\n<li>Ramp down(gradual decrease in the number of users) : 5 users every 3 mins<\/li>\n<li>duration: peak load: 10 mins<\/li>\n<li>pacing between iterations: 5 seconds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This kind of scenarios cannot be tested manually because arrangement of resources, controlling\u00a0 many number of users at a time is impractical<\/p>\n<p>The load testing can be done in many testing cycles with different number of user loads.<\/p>\n<p>For eg:<\/p>\n<p>10 users, 30 users, 40 users, 50 users(peak load)<\/p>\n<h2>The main metrics used for load testing:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Response time:<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The time taken by the system to respond to users request<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Throughput:<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bytes per run<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Transaction summary<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Questions<\/b><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>What are the Load testing goals?<\/li>\n<li>Explain difference between stress testing and load testing?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Load testing goals are: CLICK TO READ FIRST PART Response time for each and every transaction Performance of the system components under different loads Performance of database components and their behaviour with different volumes of data The network delay between client and server Software application design issues affecting the performance Server configuration like web server, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[169,119,127,168],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qa-tutorials","tag-load-testing","tag-non-functional-testing","tag-performance-testing","tag-software-performance-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}