Scalability testing
Scalability Testing, part of the battery of non-functional tests, is the testing of a software application for measuring its capability to scale up or scale out [1]- in terms of any of its non-functional capability - be it the user load supported, the number of transactions, the data volume etc.
Performance, scalability and reliability are usually considered together by software quality analysts.
[edit] Tools
Scalability testing tools exist (often times leveraging scalable resources themselves) in order to test load, concurrent connections, transactions, and throughput of many internet services. Of the available testing services, those offering API support suggest that environment of continuous deployment also continuously test how recent changes may impact scalability.
Commonly used tools include:
[edit] References
[edit] Further reading
Designing Distributed Applications with Visual Studio .NET: Scalability
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