{"id":668,"date":"2015-10-30T02:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T08:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cigniti.com\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2018-10-05T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:05:09","slug":"why-load-testing-5-common-mistakes-to-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/why-load-testing-5-common-mistakes-to-avoid\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Load Testing & 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"
In today’s digital business world, organizations need their websites \/ applications to be competitive. They do not want to face a scenario where their customers get to receive responses such as – \u201cThis page is currently unavailable\u201d, \u201cHTTP Error 503\u201d, or \u201cthis transaction cannot be processed now\u201d, etc. \u00a0Websites and applications should be built in such a way that they offer seamless experience to customers and facilitate efficient online business transactions. Organizations must evaluate their websites \/ applications to understand if they are capable of serving real-time high traffic loads. Load testing helps mitigate any such risks and ensures acceptable performance of your website \/ software \/ application.<\/p>\n
Load testing, <\/strong>a part of performance testing<\/a>, is the process of putting a software or application through both normal and anticipated peak loads to measure its response in such conditions. In load testing, tester assigns the largest job to the system that it could possibly handle. It allows you to find defects including load balancing problems, capacity issues of the existing system, and bandwidth concerns before your customers are exposed to them, saving you from facing unpleasant situations.<\/p>\n Here are the 5\u00a0common mistakes to avoid for successful load testing:<\/strong><\/p>\n Load testing is about verifying performance of a system under a stimulated multi-user, multivariate workload. It should not be confused with functional testing or stress testing. It is a part of performance testing, which determines the speed and effectiveness of a software or application.<\/p>\n There is a thin line between load testing and stress testing. Load testing ensures that a software \/ system handles the load it is designed to handle, whereas stress testing is overloading the system until it breaks so that the risk involved at the breaking points can be analyzed.\u00a0 Through stress testing, one can be prepared for the unexpected slippages, and explore the limits of a system\u2019s performance capacity.<\/p>\n\n