Performance Testing Activities

Let us see what are the steps or activities carried out in performance testing.

Step 1: Test Requirement Analysis

The first step is to know the business features and actual outcome of the application. It will help the testers to plan accordingly regarding what we are going to test. How the testing should be carried out? What are the different scenarios involved in the testing? How much test data is required? What are the testing tools needed? All these requirements will be analyzed first and planned.

Step 2: Test Environment

Now, the tester needs to set up the test environment by choosing the best testing tool required to do testing. All the prerequisites of that testing tool need to be installed to do the testing. Testers will carry out both manual and automation testing to achieve 100% testing coverage.

Step 3: Preparation of Test Script

Here, testers need to prepare the test scripts for different scenarios involved in one feature. Testers need to execute these test scripts while doing automation testing. During load tests, they set up the test scripts to hit all possible services to check the performance of the application. Some of these scripts can be reused for other scenarios as well.

Step 4: Collecting Test Data

Collecting user test data is one of the challenging processes for testers. If the feature includes various scenarios then the test data for each scenario is required to test the feature. These collected user data will be utilized by developers as well to check their development process.

Step 5: Testing the Feature

Once all the above processes are done. It’s timing for testing the application. Testers will automate the scripts in the testing tool to check the feature with different scenarios. They do manual testing as well to catch other issues if it’s not covered under automation testing.

Step 6: Test Report Generation

At this time, testers will prepare or document the issues with user data and hand it over to developers to fix the issue. Testers also create defects in the defect tracking system or the sprint board to track the defects. Once the issue is resolved that defect will be closed by the tester.

Collaborative load testing or load testing in an agile environment is nothing but it ensures that our application can perform under heavy traffic load. The process of load testing is to test the application’s performance under heavy traffic and ensure the scalability and SLA responses and violations of each service used in the application. This testing is one of the important methods to carry out before each product release. It ensures the stability, scalability, and actual performance of the application.