Endurance Testing

This article will help you in getting a better understanding of endurance testing and various endurance testing tools. 

Endurance testing is a testing method in which software is tested for its capability when a high workload is applied over a significant amount of time. Endurance testing is also known as soak testing. The tools which are used to implement this system are called Endurance testing tools. It is a very time taking process and it can last as long as a year depending on the load. The endurance test is usually done at the end of the performance run cycle.

Endurance testing is normally done by reducing several system sources or by overloading the system. The main goal of this test is to see if there are any memory leaks in the system and to check how the application behaves under sustained usage.

Goals of Endurance testing 

1. The main goal of the endurance testing is to check and identify the memory leaks.
2. It helps in finding the total number of users and supports performance goals.
3. It is performed by either overloading the system or by decreasing the system resources and facing the consequences.

How to perform an endurance test?

The following steps are required to perform an endurance test:
1. First, you have to gather all the required information like the software and hardware requirements required for endurance testing and the test should be done for how the application will be after a few years.
2. Second step is to create a test plan to stress the system to check its breaking point.
3. In this step, we estimate the amount of time required to complete the test on the basis of the numbers of test.
4. The last step is to identify the risk factor and submit a report on it.

Advantages of Endurance Testing 

1. It help the application to detect the problem which will occur in the long term.
2. It helps in checking if there is any memory leakage.
3. It helps to detect the maximum amount of workload the application can handle.

Disadvantage of Endurance Testing

It is a very long process and takes a huge amount of time to complete the testing. The automatic testing and manual testing cannot be performed.

There are many endurance testing tools available in the market but below are more popular and widely used tools in the market:
1. Loadcomplete

2. apache JMeter

3. Rational integration tester

1. Loadcomplete:

It is an endurance testing tool developed by SmartBear software which allows testing of software projects across several types of devices like mobile, laptops, PC etc. it uses artificial intelligence software for performing better tests and for producing the enhanced results. 

It supports a large number of programming languages which eases the workload of developers.

Features:

• As mentioned earlier, it uses artificial intelligence software and few machine learning algorithms for better object recognition.
• This tool consists of a unique feature called self-healing capability(with help of AI) which will automatically identify the unexpected errors and also suggests you the correct modification for it.
• It supports multiple programming languages which increases it usage in the market.
• It allows to reuse the same test(which has already ran)across multiple projects which saves a lot of time.

2. Apache jmeter

Apache Jmeter is an open-source performance testing tool that is developed by Apache software. This tool is written in java language and uses Swing graphical API. This application can be used very smoothly on all platforms which support java virtual machine ex: Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.

Features:

• It is an open-source tool and anyone can use it for free.
• It consists of a very simple and user-friendly graphical user Interface(GUI).
• The best feature of this tool is it even supports for analysis of test results in offline mode.
• It exports test results in various representations like trees, tables, and log files.
• It supports browser plugins and supports various protocols like XML, java-based protocols, FTP(file transfer protocol), and HTTPS.

3. Rational Integration Tester

Rational Integration tester is the integration testing tool acquired by IBM. This tool was first developed by Green Hat and later IBM acquired Green Hat. it helps in providing a high-quality product and it can be easily accessed and maintained by developers. Below are a few key features of the integration testing tool.

Features:

• It offers code-free integration testing and it even allows for reusing stubs(similar to a module) so that testing can be even performed when some of the components are missing.
• Sometimes a single project must be accessed by multiple users to achieve this tool using standard software configuration management(SCM) system. 
• It facilitates developers to record all the events during the development of the project.
• It reduces the time cycle of a project.
• The learning time for this tool is also less.

This is all about endurance testing and few tools which are used to implement endurance testing. Hope you understand this topic.