Questions tagged [performance-testing]
Performance testing is the process of determining the speed or effectiveness of a computer, network, software program or device.
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What kind of response codes will I get in JMeter if the AUT reaches its breaking point and eventually the server crashes?
If I gradually increase the number of virtual users (VU) using JMeter, what response code should I expect when the application under test (AUT) reaches breaking point or the server crashes?
How to ...
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Is it really possible to be a Full-Stack QA & if yes then list the technical skills required?
Everyone needs an all-rounder whether it is a software developer or Tester these days. Hence we are hearing the term “Full Stack QA” these days so my question is what skill-set makes a Full Stack QA &...
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Difference in 1 user doing 1000 iterations and 1000 users doing 1 iteration in Load testing
I want to understand what is the difference for the above mentioned scenario in Load testing.
How different would the results be?
Also another scenario would be wherein I'm having the same user ...
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Nothings gets recorded when using JMeter for load testing of Vaddin-based app
We have been trying to do a Quick Load test on one of the POC application developed in Vaddin using JMeter tool, the server is hosted on local network.
The settings for automating Vaddin application ...
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Estimation of maximum no of concurrent users a application will need to support
I need to estimate the maximum number of concurrent users my application will experience in order to set goals for the software development team.
We have 550 potential users, but modelling of the ...
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Azure VM for comparative performance testing
Is it acceptable to use Azure VMs for comparing performance of an application over different Windows OS's?
I've heard that testing in a VM can give squiffy results as the hypervisor tries to juggle ...
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JMeter: how to trigger all multiple requests at same time
I have defined a few samplers in JMeter.
I want to trigger all those samplers at same time.
Example: Say, I have 5 users and 5 samplers. I want each sampler is triggered at same time by each of user. ...
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How to share the generated JMeter Report dashboard to stakeholders via email?
Now that I have generated the report dashboard after the JMeter test run, I want to share the same via email to concerned members and stakeholders. Please suggest how can I do the aforementioned task!
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How to enforce run Once Only Controller in Jmeter
I'm a newcomer to Jmeter and want to be able to run some setup requests once only, in which some variables are setup, before I then run a set of further requests for as many users as I set in the ...
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Jmeter (jmx) - How to run requests sequentially where first request response is dependent on the second request
I'm using jmeter for load testing so I'm a little bit stuck at this situation. Below is the scenario.
There are two HTTPS (target1 and target2) requests, which needed to be generated sequentially in ...
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How to test behavior of client side UI/Performance along with load test with n users for desktop applications?
I have to perform load test on a desktop application. So, I used visual studio to test load on web server with 100 users then it worked fine & got no error.
But in real time, I got different ...
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What are the units of Y-axis in this perfmon graph in JMeter?
I have been monitoring server side performance. I got some graph based on the reading, but I am not able to figure out the unit on the y-axis numbers. Is the CPU utilization calculated in % or some ...
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How can I create a Test scenario in JMeter where multiple users login and logout concurrently for a certain ramp up time?
I am a complete newbie in JMeter or load testing in general.
The JMeter Test scenario i want to create:-
50 different users(having different login credentials) login into a
web application - do ...
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How to automatically generate performance testing scripts in a write heavy web application
I've been researching performance testing the large web application I develop at my job - mainly reading The Art of Application Performance Testing and using the web. It seems the best practice for ...
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Performance test using Jmeter - Tune the Script as per requirement
I have to do performance test on our API. In our current system they told 3500 request are handling per minute. But there is no way to take the amount of concurrent users per minute. So I just run my ...
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How can you differentiate between load testing and stress testing?
How will you differentiate between load testing and stress testing? Do they overlap or are they completely different from each other?
Examples of both types of testing would also be helpful.
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Change Simulated 3G Network For Lighthouse CLI
I'm having difficulty changing the network for Lighthouse. It is defaulting to 3G throttle.
Ideally, I would like to know how to run the performance audits without throttling.
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Use of Access Log sampler in JMeter
I tried to use "access log sampler" for two websites. for first one I get the logs but for 2nd logs were not generated.
1st one having SSH/SSL certificated
2nd site having expired SSL.
May I know ...
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How to hide(child samplers) in jtl and html report using jmeter tool
After making changes in JMeter but still I can able to child samplers. I have followed this link How to hide (Child samplers ) in jtl and html report
Below are the changes I made in JMeter:
Unchecked ...
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What's coordinated omisssion and how to properly avoid it?
I recently run into the issue of the so-called "coordinated omission " when finding out the latency result of wrk doesn't look normal.
Some search leads me to How NOT to Measure Latency and ...
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How to test Sign Up API (Post Method) for multiple users in Jmeter?
I tried multiple user sign ups using Sign-up API (POST Method) with parameterization. But It's not working.
I have set the CSV Data set Config
Added the variable names in Param value
Added a HTTP ...
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When should QA start with non functional-testing?
I cannot find an answer to this seemingly easy question:
Should QA start non-functional testing:
whenever possible to reveal potential problems early (e.g. bad design leading to bad performance ...
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Will need to perform load test for all Rest API of an application where backend is served
Consider, we have Front end Angular js application where backend is controlled by a API
Now this application contains around 300 API's.
Whether we want to perform load test for all these API's
How ...
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Is minimum number of concurrent users a useful stat to have when performance testing?
Newbie perf test question:
I read something a while ago that made me think that minimum number of concurrent users was a useful stat to have (annoyingly I can't remember what the reason was). But I ...
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How to run samplers sequentially in JMeter while running samplers by throughput?
I have ~10 scripts in my Test Plan, which are dependent. (e.g. the 2nd request couldn't be passed if the 1st request is not passed - it is restriction of functionality).
My goal is to run JMeter ...
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Clientside Performance Tests for Hybrid App
I am using JMeter for testing the server side performance of our Mobile App.
What tool can I use to test the client side performance of the app?
I know there is a plug in for JMeter but as far as I ...
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The Graph Generator listener is generating only one graph
I tried generating graphs of my tests using Graph Generator listener, but only one graph of Response Times over Time is generated in the output folder. How can I generate more graph??? Any suggestions?...
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What does mean the fields- domain, realm and mechanism in the Authorization Manager of JMeter?
I am trying to test a website using Jmeter. I recorded the script using the blazemeter plugin. While running,it seems that the login is not performed properly. And the all the further scripts fail ...
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Jmeter:- How to increase and Decrease and then increase decrease TPS using jmeter?
I have 300 VUsers (Threads) and ramp up 600 seconds and total number of requests (http Request) 5 , Response time for each request is 2 seconds so total 10 sec will takes to complete one loop,
I was ...
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How to test performance of a multithreaded, client-server environment
I am busy writing a server application and a client application. The server application is multithreaded, meaning that multiple client requests can be handled at the same time. However, some of the ...
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Apply a radom pacing in Jmeter without using Timers
I wanted to apply Pacing in jmeter for 120- 180 Seconds for all my samplers , I know i can do it with Through put Timers is there anyother way to apply pacing , i think we can use Beanshell Scripting ...
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Design Industrial Process Controller for Testability
We are currently developing a new industrial process controller for applications with very low cycle times (<50us). The embedded software that runs on this controller shall be validated ...
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What should I have to test first? Functionality or speed?
There is a scenario: In the new sprint there is a card for functionality refactoring in order to increase speed.
If functionality is broken because of code changes then what should I have to test ...
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Root cause analysis on a performance issue?
Can some one give me proper idea on how to perform a Root cause analysis of a performance issue.
Eg: examine hardware bottle necks,Connectivity issues,SQL server performance,examine the code via white ...
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How does response time react to increasing load?
I'm testing my application locally with JMeter, and I have a doubt about how the response time changes as far as users are increasing.
If I test my service with, for example: 100 Threads, 100 Ramp-Up ...
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How to perform HTTP PUT Request by reading values from CSV in JMeter?
I have a question how can I set up HTTP Request Sampler for HTTP PUT method in JMeter so it can read data from CSV file using CSV Data Set Config?
In my scenario I'm using **Concurrency Thread Group** ...
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A way to store performance testing results
I frequently run performance tests on the system I work on (using JMeter and k6), and I'd like to store the results somewhere for further analysis and comparison. The catch is that the system has ...
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Load Test a Web App whose APIs are not exposed
I want to load test an application which does two things when I click on the button after filling the details -
Make a call to 3rd party merchant API to validate the details entered
Do some read &...
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JMeter - save response to file listener but also ignore result
In JMeter, I am using a post processor running prev.setIgnore() within the setup thread group to ignore those requests.
Some of these requests are JDBC requests to select data out of the database and ...
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Calculating concurrent users
I have read a few posts and there was a time I know this.. but anyone have the equation for calculating representative concurrent users, for performance testing, for micro service based solution.
if ...
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When signup using jmeter it redirects to login page in magento 2?
When I am signup/register using JMeter proxy it redirects to the login page in Magento 2. Previously I am having the issue when login but it gets solved(ref link: Login doesn’t work and it redirects ...
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How can I login with 100 different users in the web application simultaneously and then each user performs different functions in JMeter?
I dont anything about JMeter, but i wanted to ask if this thing is possible in JMeter.
100 users with different username/password login in concurrently in the web application.
Each user stays logged ...
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How to load test Apache Kafka using JMeter?
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system. I need to load test KAFKA using JMeter effectively as we have recently replaced ...
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How can i simulate a load for downloading a file for 500 users?
We are doing a performance for a downloading a file from the web for 500 users.
I have written a selenium script for the downloading file from the web using JMeter.
The problem is will be able to ...
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Load testing using Jmeter
I am new to JMeter and I have to do load testing for my website. I want to achieve this for 500 users on concurrent sessions. On my website, once the user logs in there are 7 Ajax calls to render data ...
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What is the difference between linux and windows from web application testing point of view [closed]
What is the difference between Linux and Windows from a web application testing point of view?
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Mobile App performance and load testing
How do I check mobile application performance/load testing?
Currently, I have checked the app performance over different networks like 2g, 3g, wifi but I want to check how the app will behave when ...
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How to Conduct a performance test for more than 100K users [closed]
Currently we want to conduct a performance test for more than 100k users. I am comparing some tools like Jmeter/Gatling/Tsung/nGrinder, which one will be suitable for us?
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Performance testing of a Silverlight application, using JMeter [duplicate]
I'm trying to test the performance of a Silverlight application using JMeter.
Can you please tell me is that possible?
If it is possible, can you please provide me the detailed steps to be followed.
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How to get body data in logs for each request in K6
I would like to know: how can I get the body data in response to each request in K6?
I tried using console.log(response.body), but it did not provide a solution for it. Either it gives a response in ...
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