Five phases of Performance Testing
Posted by: Jaideep
As in a software project, the complete project lifecycle comprises of different phases. Similarly the performance testing lifecycle also comprises of various phases. Performance testing is usually, as the name suggests, is done to evaluate or examine the performance of the software product with the help of some tools and certain parameters. The performance testing may include components based on the requirements that include – load, volume, stress etc.
Five prominent phases of performance testing can be:
Phase 1:
a) Test Plan
b) Test strategy
Phase 2:
a) Load Modeling
b) Scripting
c) Benchmarking criteria
Phase 3:
a) Benchmark execution
b) Other executions
c) Reports generation
d) Reports Analysis
Phase 4:
a) Reports reconciliation
b) Reports compilation
c) Final Test Report
d) Bottlenecks identification
e) Recommendations
Phase 5:
a) Execution of recommendations


