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Load testing and stress testing are both means of performance testing, so it’s not easy to draw a line of distinction between the two. However, while load testing assesses the software performance under some expected load (regular or peak), stress testing pushes the bar beyond peak conditions to determine the system’s load capacity as well…
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Database volume testing is a type of testing where the system is tested based on large volumes of data. Challenge Minimizing the risks related to performance degradation, possible breakdowns or failures under loads that are caused by increases of data in the database by promptly discovering performance problems in the system’s operability, localizing the “bottlenecks”…
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Synthetic testing is a way to check the IT system’s performance in terms of infrastructure and application performance metrics such as disk reading or writing speed, the speed of memory page communication, and network utilization. Problems it will solve Optimizing infrastructure costs by choosing the most effective configuration with regard to the user operation and…
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Reliability and stability testing allows to model system behavior during regular and irregular situations, shutdowns or restarts of the various system components or lengthy loads on the system. Problems it will solve Minimizing the risks related to the inoperability of business processes or system components after the failure of several system components by promptly discovering…
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Around the world, JMeter and LoadRunner remain some of the most popular tools for load testing. These are truly excellent tools and most performance engineers use them.

When choosing load testing tools the main question is whether the tool supports all the required protocols? When it comes to HTTP, the selection of tools is enormous, including excellent cloud solutions that make it possible to create a load simultaneously from different points on the planet. For less common protocols the number of suitable tools shrinks considerably. In these cases, the indisputable leader is LoadRunner, an HP product and the de facto standard in the enterprise segment.