Performance testing is a broad and complex activity that can take many forms, address many risks, and provide an organisation with a wide range of value. It is essential to understand the different performance test types to reduce risks, minimize cost, and know when to apply the appropriate test during a given performance-testing project. To…
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Below is the performance testing checklist that can help you to conduct smooth performance tests without missing any important tasks before performing the test: Risk Assessment: Understanding the System Architecture Identification of Critical Business Flows Identification of In-scope and Out-of-scope components Deep understanding of all the in-scope components Understanding the impact of changes on all…
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This Performance Testing Cheat Sheet will help you to quickly revise all the critical performance testing terms in a simple way: Basic Performance Metrics: User Load Response Time Requests/Transactions per second Data Throughput Error Rate CPU Utilization Memory Utilization Disk Utilization Performance Test Type Early Performance Test (EPT): To measure system performance during the initial…
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Total blocking time defines as the sum of all the long tasks (=Long Task processing Time – 50ms) between First Contentful Paint and Time To Interactive period which blocks the main thread and prevents the user from interacting with the web page. What is Long Task? In the UI Performance Testing term, the main thread…
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‘Time to Interactive’ is a very common but non-standardized UI metric that represents the time when a website is ready for user interaction. Here, ‘user interaction’ means when a user can provide an input in form of a click, select an option, insert a text etc. To make the definition more simply, let’s try to…
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Speed Index (SI) is a UI Performance Testing metric that calculates how quickly the content of the webpage is visually displayed to the end-users. Actually, the speed index is not a time-based unit. It is a score that represents the content loading speed of a web page. The lesser is the value of SI, the…
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