Services For Your Software: Load Testing

Load testing is one of the essential ways to assess the performance of your mobile and web software. This testing makes sure whether it's going to work without failures under the conditions that exceed the normal. As a good example may serve such software as mobile social networks. They have a constantly growing number of active users. The users' actions within the application interact with the web server, sending requests and receiving responses. The software has to run these operations smoothly and be sure to remain failsafe in the future. Our task is to determine its ability to do so.


Load testing emulates certain actions that can be performed by a user. By certain are meant the actions that involve interactions with the server. The number of users may vary, and the content of requests varies as well. The purpose is to see if the software meets its load requirements; to find the software's capacity limits; and to track its behavior under load conditions, sudden load swings etc. How is it done? Here are several tests the software undergoes:
- Simultaneous requests by multiple users;
- Gradual increase in the number of users;
- Different unique requests with different time intervals.


Such examination measures all the values to get a comprehensive picture of what has to be improved. For this purpose, among other tools, Apache JMeter is utilized - a convenient and flexible tool for carrying out the load test and measuring performance. JMeter is Java-based cross-platform software with a convenient GUI. Its great advantage is that all necessary information is gathered and stored in one place, and it isn't necessary to reenter the requests for the further testing process. There are often various changes applied to the software project, and it is easy to access the information and enter the corresponding changed elements (for example, URL address or request body). It's a great time-saving option for the process of testing.


A specifically designed load test allows to find the possible problems, and avoid their emergence after the deployment. The flexible regulation of load testing brings maximum efficiency to the process. Testing is an obligatory stage of software development; we apply it to the software we create for you, and we also provide the services of load-testing the third-party mobile and web software. Our goal is to achieve the quality of your product.