Summary
Performance testing is a complicated sub-specialty in testing. When you have access to performance testing experts, engaging them to help you with your testing is a great idea. However, the reality is many companies do not have the resources to keep performance testing experts on staff. That is where you can step in and use some of the things you’ve learned in the chapter.
You’ve learned about some of the different kinds of performance testing. You learned how to think about processing, memory, and connection loads. You have learned about how to generate different kinds of loads and about the different load profiles that you can use. We covered spike, ramp, and endurance load profiles. We looked at what each of those loads are and how to generate them in Postman.
We then dug into performance testing loads in more detail as we covered how to run some simple performance tests in Postman. You learned how to create and use a load profile for a single request...
