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Authors: Myasnikov S., Namiot D. Published in № 1(73) 27 february 2018 year
Rubric: Software development technologies

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On load testing tools

The paper examines the main aspects of testing the performance of software products. The article gives a classification of testing methods. The main focus is on so-called load testing. Load testing is conducted to determine the degree to which the system meets non-functional requirements, such as the maximum number of simultaneous users, the response time of the information service, and so on. To verify such requirements, as a rule, we need to emulate user activity, close to real. Load testing is conducted to determine how quickly the computing system or part of it under a certain load, as well as confirm other attributes of system quality, such as scalability, reliability and resource consumption. The paper describes in detail the different types of stress tests, as well as a testing methodology for each species. This list includesб for example, the detection of maximum performance, reliability and fault tolerance tests, localization of performance problems. The article suggests also a set of indicators for the classification of testing tools, on the basis of which a comparative analysis of existing tools for conducting load testing is given.