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System Test: What Is System Testing ?

System testing involves testing an entire integrated system to evaluate compliance with requirements from a user perspective without knowledge of internal design or code. This document discusses types of system testing like scalability, stress, and load testing. Scalability testing measures performance under increasing user loads and ensures a system can handle growing needs. Stress testing verifies stability and reliability under heavy loads, while stability testing evaluates how well a system copes with errors under stress. Load testing determines performance when accessed by multiple simultaneous users. Tools discussed include WebLOAD, LoadRunner, JMeter, and NeoLoad.

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System Test: What Is System Testing ?

System testing involves testing an entire integrated system to evaluate compliance with requirements from a user perspective without knowledge of internal design or code. This document discusses types of system testing like scalability, stress, and load testing. Scalability testing measures performance under increasing user loads and ensures a system can handle growing needs. Stress testing verifies stability and reliability under heavy loads, while stability testing evaluates how well a system copes with errors under stress. Load testing determines performance when accessed by multiple simultaneous users. Tools discussed include WebLOAD, LoadRunner, JMeter, and NeoLoad.

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SYSTEM TEST

What is System Testing ?


Definition – The testing of software or hardware conducted on an entire, integrated system to check and assess the
system’s compliance with its specified requirements is define as System Testing.

It comes under Black box testing (i.e. only external working features of the software evaluated during this testing), it
does not require any internal knowledge of coding, programming, design and completely based on users perspective.

Types of System Testing


1. Scalability Testing

2. Stress Testing

3. Load and Stability Testing

Scalability Testing
Definition – a non functional testing method that measure performance of a system or network when the number of
users requests are scaled up or down.

The purpose of Scalability testing is to ensure that the system can handle increase in user traffic, data volume,
transaction counts frequency, lets the system to meet the growing needs.

Attributes :-

• Response Time

• Screen Transition

• Time (Session time, reboot time, ping time)

• Performance measurement with a number of users

• Network Usage

• CPU / Memory Usage

• Web Server

• Performance measurement under load

Requirements :-

• OS – What operating system do the load generation agents and load test master run under

• Processor – What CPU is required for the virtual user agent and load test master

• Memory – How much memory would be enough for the virtual user agent and load test master

How to do Scalability Testing

• Define a process that is repeatable for executing scalability tests throughout the application life-cycle

• Determine the criteria for scalability


• Shortlist the software tools required to run the load test

• Set the testing environment and configure the hardware required to execute scalability tests

• Plan the test scenarios as well as Scalability Tests

• Create and verify visual script

• Create and verify the load test scenarios

• Execute the tests

• Evaluate the results

• Generate required reports

Scalability Testing Plan

• The test script should have a detailed step that determine the exact actions a user would perform.

• The test plan should determine any run time data that is required to interact with the application

• If the scripts need varying data at run-time, you need to have an understanding of all the fields that require this
data

Stress Testing
Definition – a type of software testing that verifies stability and reliability of software application. The goal of Stress
testing is measuring software on its robustness and error handling capabilities under extremely heavy load conditions
and ensuring that software does not crash under crunch situations.

Need – It is imperative to perform Stress Testing to accommodate such abnormal traffic spikes. Failure to accommodate
this sudden traffic may result in loss of revenue and repute.

It is also extremely valuable for the following reasons :

• To check whether the system works under abnormal condition

• System failure under extreme conditions could result in enormous revenue loss

• Better to be prepared for extreme conditions by executing Stress Testing.

Type of Stress Testing

Distributed Stress Testing: In distributed client-server systems, testing is done across all clients from the server. The
role of stress server is to distribute a set of stress tests to all stress clients and track on the status of the client. After the
client contacts the server, the server adds the name of the client and starts sending data for testing.
Night run is the best option to run these stress testing scenarios. Large server farms need a more efficient method for
determining which computers have had stress failures that need to be investigated.
Application Stress Testing: This testing concentrate on finding defects related to data locking and blocking, network
issues and performance bottlenecks in an application.

Transactional Stress Testing: It does stress testing on one or more transactions between two or more applications. It is
used for fine-tuning & optimizing the system.

How to do Stress Testing


• Planning the Stress Test. Here you gather the system data, analyse the system, define the stress test goals

• Create Automation Scripts: In this phase, you create the Stress testing automation scripts, generate the test data
for the stress scenarios.

• Script Execution: In this stage, you run the Stress testing automation scripts and store the stress results.

• Results Analysis: In this stage, you analyse the Stress Test results and identify bottlenecks.

• Tweaking and Optimization: In this stage, you fine-tune the system, change configurations, optimize the code
with goal meet the desired benchmark.

Tools For Stress Testing

Stress Tester
This tool provides extensive analysis of the web application performance, provides results in graphical format, and it is
extremely easy to use. No high-level scripting is required and gives a good return on investment.

Neo load
This is a popular tool available in the market to test the web and mobile applications. This tool can simulate thousands
of users in order to evaluate the application performance under load and analyse the response times. It also supports
Cloud-integrated – performance, load and stress testing. It is easy to use, cost-effective and provides good scalability.

Stability Testing
Definition – It is one of the tests done during performance testing. A simple way to understand stability testing is to
imagine the extent to which stress impacts your activity levels.

In instability testing, the software efficiency likewise depreciates until it falls apart. The overloaded application under
test allows testers to track their ability to cope with errors

QA engineers mostly stretch the system by deploying mass virtual audiences to use it.

Why Do a Stability Testing


The intent of conducting a stability test is to allow users to grasp how the software will behave in real-life cases. Here
are several reasons why stability testing is essential, especially for commercial applications:

• Guarantee the stable status of the tested application.

• Make adequate preparations for a possible event

• Ensure that a build can carry the anticipated number of users.

• Check if the system performance meets intended results

• Compare the load coverage in stressful Vs. normal conditions


• Find system errors.

• Detect memory loopholes.

Steps of Stability Testing


• To ascertain the test coverage and goals, we need to guarantee that the app servers will not fail throughout the
load testing

• To establish operational issues, we must confirm the system’s reliability and load by using the standpoint.

• To allocate various tasks and functions, such as creating, planning, reviewing, and executing tests.

• To secure all deliverables during defined periods.

• To guarantee that the right testing tools and expertise are in place.

• To determine threats and expenses for testing and essentially estimate all executions’ cost based on CPU usage
and memory.

• To evaluate error tracing and analysis while aligning them with the specifications.

How To DO Stability Testing


• To determine the scope and objective of the testing, we must ensure that the Application Server(s) do not crash
during the Load Test executions.

• To determine the Business issues, verify the system performance and load as per end user perspective.

• To assign the different Responsibilities and Roles like -Creating Test plan, Test Case design, Test case review,
Test execution, etc.

• To ensure the Test deliverables within the specified time

• To ensure proper Load Testing tools and experience team is present for the same.

• To measure the risk and cost involves in the testing. This will determine the cost of each execution in terms of
CPU utilization and memory.

• Determine the Defect tracking and reporting and their proper mapping with the requirements.

Tools For Stability Testing

• WebLOAD

• LoadRunner

• Apache JMeter

• NeoLoad

• CloudTest

• Loadstorm

• LoadUI

• WAPT
• LoadImpact

• Loadster

• Httperf

• OpenSTA

• Performance Tester

• Testing Anywhere

Load Testing
Definition – Load Testing is a non-functional software testing process in which the performance of software application
is tested under a specific expected load. It determines how the software application behaves while being accessed by
multiple users simultaneously.

The goal of Load Testing is to improve performance bottlenecks and to ensure stability and smooth functioning of
software application before deployment.

How to do Load Testing


• Create a dedicated Test Environment for load testing

• Determine the following

• Load Test Scenarios

• Determine load testing transactions for an application

• Prepare Data for each transaction

• Number of Users accessing the system need to be predicted

• Determine connection speeds. Some users may be connected via leased lines while others may use dial-up

• Determine different browsers and operating systems used by the users

• A configuration of all the servers like web, application and DB Servers

• Test Scenario execution and monitoring. Collecting various metrics

• Analyse the results. Make recommendations

• Fine-tune the System

• Re-test

Load Testing Tools

LoadNinja – is revolutionizing the way we load test. This cloud-based load testing tool empowers teams to record &
instantly playback comprehensive load tests, without complex dynamic correlation & run these load tests in real
browsers at scale. Teams are able to increase test coverage. & cut load testing time by over 60%.
Advantages and Disadvantage of Load Testing

Advantages
• Performance bottlenecks identification before production

• Improves the scalability of the system

• Minimize risk related to system downtime

• Reduced costs of failure

• Increase customer satisfaction

Disadvantage
• Need programming knowledge to use load testing tools.

• Tools can be expensive as pricing depends on the number of virtual users supported

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