load testing
Simulating heavy usage
Load testing is evaluating how a system performs under expected or heavy demand.
In software and web development, load testing measures response times, stability, and capacity when many users access a system simultaneously: We need to load test the server before launch.
The goal is identifying bottlenecks before they affect real users.
- throughputProcessing rate over time
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- benchmarkingMeasuring against top performers
- response timeInterval before reacting
- structural integrityWholeness under load
validation · scalability · capacity planning · stress analysis · bottleneck · latency · breaking point · server crash · soak · ramp up · simulation · overload · requests · strain · traffic · performance · peak · server
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