Load testing your applications
Load testing is the task in which we review how our application works by measuring its behavior under different stressful circumstances. You, as a developer, always have to think about how your application will manage these stressful situations and try to answer some of the following questions:
- Will my application work under high user loads?
- How will my application’s components be impacted in such a case?
- Will scaling up some components maintain the overall performance or might this cause problems with other components?
Testing the application before it goes to production will help us predict how the application is going to work. Automation is key to simulating thousands of requests at a time.
With load testing or performance testing, we try to put pressure on our applications and increase their workloads. We can test our applications for different reasons:
- To understand how our application behaves with an expected...
