Load and Performace Testing

Load and performance testing is a non functional testing.

Performance testing allow tester to judge how well an application or website performs under specific circumstance .

Measuring the time taken, the scalability and reliability of an action is key to performance testing.

Performance test and Load/Stress Test determine the ability of the application  to perform while under load.

During Stress / Load testing the tester attempts to stress or load an aspect of the system to the point of failure.

• the goal being to determine weak points in the system architecture.

reference: http://www.automationanywhere.com/Testing/solutions/automated-performance