From the course: Performance Testing Foundations
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Endurance testing
- [Instructor] Another type of performance test you might want to consider, is an endurance test. You might also sometimes hear of this referred to as a soak test. This kind of test is actually pretty easy to design, since the low profile just looks like a flat line, where you give it a lot of users and then run actions for those users over and over, and the point of this kind of load, and this kind of test is to see how well your application holds up under sustained loads for a long time. So, in this case I'm holding the load for an hour, you could do it for several hours or days If you wanted to. Basically if we think about the test design step here in our structure, it's pretty easy, we just need to figure out how many users we want and how long we want to hold the load for. Might me more important though in this kind of testing to think carefully about the kinds of actions we want our users to be doing. With…
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