What are Performance Counters? In Performance Testing, the Performance counters are a type of metric used to measure the performance of hardware, software and networks. These counters are used to track the performance of various components of a software system, such as processors, memory, disks, networks, and application components. Uses of Performance Counters An operating … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Largest Contentful Paint or LCP is one of the important metrics in UI Performance Testing. It provides the time when the largest element of the web page is loaded in the browser and ready to consume by the user. Also note that the LCP only counts the loading time of what is relevant to the user … Read more
First Contentful Paint or FCP is one of the important metrics in UI Performance Testing. It provides the time when the browser renders the first bit of content like text, image, non-white canvas etc. It gives the first impression to the user that the page is actually loading. Behind the concept of FCP, there is another … Read more