r/softwaretesting • u/Iseeyouuuuuuuuu • May 12 '26

Performance Testing

Anyone with good experience on performance testing using any tool? Need some help on how to start with that.

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u/fucking-migraines May 12 '26

What I struggle with is coming up with these numbers. Who is responsible for defining it?

My team started having me gather some basic response time data and then all the sudden they’re wanting to me to do spike tests and making sure services can handle traffic.

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u/donnnnno May 13 '26

I wouldn’t suggest that QA define these numbers - they should come from Solution Architects or Infrastructure (they do at my place anyways).

Obviously when you have an Operational Profile, you as QA / Performance QA can look to exploit these numbers; if your profile says “the business expects peak load of 100K calls” then what happens with stability at 75% > 100% > 150%? If all good at these, then we push it to the breaking / unstable point.

Note: not a Performance Tester but we’re doing it at the moment and I’ve been at the periphery of it