The goal of performance testing is not to find bugs, but to eliminate bottlenecks and establish a baseline for future regression testing.
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Agile Testing: Performance vs. load vs. stress testing t; by Nguyen et al.Update July 7th, 2005From the referrer logs I see that this post comes up fairly often in Google searches. I'm updating it with a link to a later post I wrote called 'More on performance vs. load testing'.Performance testing<span>The goal of performance testing is not to find bugs, but to eliminate bottlenecks and establish a baseline for future regression testing. To conduct performance testing is to engage in a carefully controlled process of measurement and analysis. Ideally, the software under test is already stable enough so that this process