2 posts tagged with "soak testing"

When building and deploying software applications, especially those with a web interface or backend systems, it's crucial to ensure that the system can handle varying levels of load. This is where performance testing comes in. Performance testing aims to measure how a system performs under different conditions, identifying its capacity and behavior under expected and extreme circumstances. The four primary testing methods used to assess performance are Load Testing, Stress Testing, Spike Testing, and Soak Testing. Let’s explore these testing techniques in detail, including examples of each.

Performance testing is a crucial step in ensuring that your application can handle real-world traffic, perform well under heavy load, and recover from unexpected spikes or prolonged usage. Grafana K6 is a modern, open-source load testing tool that can be used to simulate and measure the performance of web applications, APIs, and services under various conditions.

In this article, we’ll walk through the implementation of load testing, stress testing, spike testing, and soak testing using Grafana K6 in a Node.js environment. We will also integrate Grafana to visualize the metrics and performance results.