General Understanding of Performance Testing

By Crocoite, Jan 2006

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Test Phase	a collection of related test activities associated with a project or programme
Test Type	an activity designed to identify certain specific errors or categories of defects that occur in a system or programme using a set of requirements that represent a properly functioning system or program
Unit Testing Phase	a developer may test the time it takes to populate a module's table or retrieve selected items from a database
Integration Testing Phase	an integrator may test the time required to transfer data between modules or even applications
Performance Test Phase	verify the target application and supporting system architecture meets or exceeds performance requirements
Which Test Types are commonly performed as part of Performance Testing?	Capacity Limit, Load, Performance, Reliability and Stress
Performance Testing	is intended to verify conformance to non-functional requirements
Performance Engineering	is intended to ensure that performance defects are caught early and infrastructure is sized correctly for planned growth
Stress Testing	conducted to evaluate a system or component at or beyond the limits of its specified requirements
Reliability Testing	conducted to evaluate the compliance of a system or component with specified reliability requirements, such as allowable downtime

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