1 February 2017
While stress testing brings the system up to its functional boundary; endurance testing (checking of the potential capacities of the product system)is focused on the application's limitations caused after its continuous usage.
Conducting software testing of such a type, the specialists can use the range of special test instruments among which there are:
- Apache JMeter,
- LoadRunner,
- LoadUI,
- WebLOAD,
- OpenSTA,
- Appvance, etc.
Usually, load checking includes system endurance testing, performance testing, and stress control. Each of these checking types helps to detect and remove the weak points of the system.
What are the advantages of product capacity testing?
- It provides the client with accurate data that can be used for the validation and improvement of the infrastructure needs.
- It defines the possible system performance errors that can occur after its long-term usage with a high load level.
- It detects the reduction of system performance after continuous usage.
- It shows what load level the system is able to withstand.
But, nevertheless, there is a range of disadvantages of testing of the potential system capacities among which the following ones can be mentioned:
- It is rather difficult to define what exact load level should be taken for checking.
- If the test environment is not isolated, then testing may cause serious failures in the system work.
- In some cases, some system components provide no response to the test.