TEST THE RISK!

I had an opportunity to give a speech about how we can automate performance testing in CI/CD pipeline in a conference held in Istanbul for the first time " Test automation and Digital QA Submit Istanbul, #TAS19 ". My subject was "Automated Performance Testing", the first part of the speech is to explain what is performance tests.  In this post, I want to explain my thoughts about performance testing. Next posts will focus on automated performance testing and using K6 as a performance testing tool. What is Performance Testing By Definition Defining the performance of the system by testing the functionalities of the system in terms of the non-functionalities   Performance Testing is A non-functional testing Testing the functionalities of the system Both black-box and white-box testing Defining how the system works under any loads Applied under different load levels Applied under different load increments Applied under different dur

Testing functional requirements of your system in the way how it behaves under different types of load is a basic explanation for performance testing. However we test the functions of the system, performance testing is classified under " non-functional testing " because we don't aim to test the functions we want to test how the system is functioning under different amount of loads. Therefore  performance testing should be performed after the functional testing has been completed . Performance testing is crucial if you are testing an application which has an un-predictable load of user or if you have specified the quality of service in your Service-Level Agreement (SLA). Performance can not be defined by one of testing criteria since there are number of parameters in the system. I mean by this, there are subsets for performance testing which can be listed as Performance Testing Load Testing Endurance Testing Stress Testing Spike We can explain the differences bet