Load testing with Tricentis Flood

This chapter explains the concepts of load testing and how Tricentis Flood supports you in your testing process.

In the following chapters you will find detailed information on how to work with the Tricentis Flood integration for Tricentis Tosca. You will learn how to:

• Create Load Streams and Load Stream Entries

• Navigate the user interface of the Tricentis Flood integration

• Specify the users and regions for Load Streams

• Specify the timing and iterations for Load Streams

• Schedule the test time of Load Streams

• Execute Load Streams in Tricentis Tosca

About load testing

Transformational initiatives such as Agile and DevOps are compelling software development teams to change their approach to load testing. This new approach involves extending beyond late-cycle load testing by performance testing specialists and empowering developers and testers to perform early, continuous load testing.

About Tricentis Flood

Tricentis Flood is designed to enable load testing for DevOps and help DevTest teams receive fast and continuous performance feedback. Tricentis Flood integrates with Tricentis Tosca, allowing you to perform load testing with the same scriptless tests you use for functional testing. Tricentis Flood not only supports traditional protocol-level load-testing approaches, but also allows testers to perform load tests at the browser level, without diving into technical details.

Tricentis Flood is a cloud-based load testing platform that helps teams to see how their applications respond to globally distributed loads. By reducing the complexity traditionally associated with load testing, it extends load testing to developers and testers. Teams can start load testing their application components as they evolve and continuously monitor performance impacts by integrating load testing into their CI/CD pipelines.

Tricentis Flood takes test plans from open source tools like JMeter, Gatling, and Selenium and distributes them across readily available servers in the cloud. It also allows you to “flood” any HTTP endpoint on-the-fly. Teams can start load testing new features as they are developed. A developer or tester can instantly generate millions of globally distributed requests per second from their local machine without dealing with the hassles of requesting, configuring, or managing performance resources on-premise or in the cloud.

The same core set of load tests can be used to meet different performance test requirements throughout the delivery process. The load can instantly be scaled up or down so that team members or automated processes can easily generate the load needed for a particular goal or phase. Tricentis Flood covers all load testing needs, from interactive developer performance tuning with real-time results, to automated CI-driven continuous load testing under a typical load and overnight under heavier loads, to comparing major feature updates versus previous performance benchmarks.

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