When creating a website, it is important to consider the possibility that one's site will be loaded quite heavily with traffic at some point in time, and this in turn will result in a period of down time. Such down time is detrimental to the ability of businesses to engage in commerce, and therefore the possibility of servers being over stressed and subsequently going down is a large area of concern for many online businesses and service providers. These situations necessitate the utilization of stress testing for the sake of preventing a loss in connectivity later on. By taking advantage of the available resources pertaining to stress testing, a system admin can anticipate what sort of traffic a given website is prepared to take on. This amounts to a set of circumstances in which a system can be scaled to accommodate increasing traffic in the long-term and the short-term.
Being able to ascertain the likely point at which a given system will be stressed to the point of losing connectivity is a matter of bombarding the server with requests. These requests will mimic the activity of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of users simultaneously. The test will enable engineers to ascertain whether or not additional servers need to utilized, and if so it will also allow them to allocate the resources necessary to engage with incoming traffic in a way that helps to offset the incoming requests. Data requests can include page views, downloads, and other requests for information being sent to a given server. The website acts as a gateway to information on servers, and if too many users are attempting to move through the gateway at once, the server can go down. Avoiding server downtime is one of the primary reasons that stress tests are initiated prior to a website or other online service going live.
Resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_testing
https://www.loadview-testing.com/
https://smartbear.com/learn/performance-testing/what-is-load-testing/
Being able to ascertain the likely point at which a given system will be stressed to the point of losing connectivity is a matter of bombarding the server with requests. These requests will mimic the activity of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of users simultaneously. The test will enable engineers to ascertain whether or not additional servers need to utilized, and if so it will also allow them to allocate the resources necessary to engage with incoming traffic in a way that helps to offset the incoming requests. Data requests can include page views, downloads, and other requests for information being sent to a given server. The website acts as a gateway to information on servers, and if too many users are attempting to move through the gateway at once, the server can go down. Avoiding server downtime is one of the primary reasons that stress tests are initiated prior to a website or other online service going live.
Resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_testing
https://www.loadview-testing.com/
https://smartbear.com/learn/performance-testing/what-is-load-testing/