What is load testing in QA?
What is Load testing? It is a testing method that ascertains a system or application’s behavior under both normal and peak load conditions. The system is tested by steadily and constantly increasing the system load until the time it reaches the threshold limit. Automation tools such as JMeter, LoadUI and LoadRunner can be easily employed using this testing method. The strategic need for Load testing: The maximum amount of work a system or application can handle is defined by the load testing method to ascertain the system’s ability to handle work without degradation of performance. The upper limit of the entire application component like hardware, database and network etc., are determined so that the anticipated load in the future can be properly managed. When massive traffic volumes hit extremely popular sites, they had to suffer downtimes and this is simply because the organizations had not put in strategic efforts to implement load testing. To achieve optimal system and appl