Friday, 14 August 2015

MT - 53 - Spike Testing !

Spike Testing is a form of load testing process in which an application is tested with unusual increment and decrements in the load. The system is unexpectedly loaded and unloaded. It is done to notice how actually the system reacts with unexpected rise and decline of users.

Spike testing is mechanism of testing which means when in a web page frequent number of visitor access the page unexpectedly increases to maximum then obviously performance of the page breaks down. So the mechanism of testing a performance about web page due to unexpected sort of traffic on the page is always called as Spike testing.

Spike testing is usually done by unexpectedly increasing the number of loads generated by users by a very enormous amount and observing the dramatic behavior of the system.The goal of spike testing is to regulate whether performance will deteriorate, the system will always fail, or it will be able to hold dramatic changes in load.




Spikes represent the sudden rise and fall of number of users


As an example we can take the exam results declaration. Suppose the results will be declared at 9.00 A.M. So exactly at 9.00 A.M. the load will increase suddenly for a particular period of time. So this sudden rise and file needs to be tested for an application .

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