Yantriks India Performance Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Throughput measures the amount of data transferred per unit time, while hits/sec measures the number of requests served per second.

• Throughput is measured in bytes/sec or bits/sec, while hits/sec is measured in requests/sec.

• Throughput is affected by network bandwidth, while hits/sec is affected by server processing power.

• To design spike testing in LoadRunner, use the 'Ramp-up' feature to gradually increase the load over...read more

Load average is the average number of processes in the run queue over a period of time.

• Load average is a metric that measures the average number of processes that are either in a running or uninterruptable sleep state.

• It is calculated over a period of time, usually 1, 5, or 15 minutes.

• The load average is displayed as three numbers, which represent the load average for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes, respectively.

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There are several types of performance testing such as load testing, stress testing, endurance testing, spike testing, and scalability testing.

• Load testing: testing the system's ability to handle a specific load

• Stress testing: testing the system's ability to handle beyond its capacity

• Endurance testing: testing the system's ability to handle a sustained load over a long period of time

• Spike testing: testing the system's ...read more