Steps of Performance Testing

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Permalink Reply by Dmitri T on March 25, 2020 at 7:47pm

I don't think that performance tester should be configuring the environment, maybe he should ensure that there is monitoring of

• essential OS health metrics (CPU, RAM, Network and Disk IO)are in place
• application-specific counters via the relevant profiler tool
• database (slow query log, deadlocks, etc)

Once done it can be combined with performance metrics using ie. Grafana so you could correlate increasing load with the application and environment specific counters

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Permalink Reply by Anand Singh on May 12, 2021 at 3:55pm

As per practices of best qa company, there are different steps for every tool used in Performance testing. Just make sure you choose the right tool as per project requirement which is easily compatible with the system and can be easily configured. However, there are few points which needs to be keep in mind while doing Performance testing:
- It should be performed on the replica of Production environment.
- Test data should be realistic as it is used on Production.
- Break down the testing scenarios into shorter scenarios to have proper coverage.
- Generate report for every test so that failures can be easily evaluated using these reports.

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