Smoke Testing in LoadRunner

How to analyse Smoke Testing in performance testing?

A performance smoke test is a test designed to determine, if your application can successfully perform all of its operations under a normal load condition for a short time.
Benefits

• Provides a quick assessment of whether a build or configuration is performing within a reasonable degree of deviation from expectations.
• Enables you to quickly compare one build or configuration to another build or configuration that a performance smoke test was previously executed against.
• Enables you to quickly determine if there are obvious and significant performance issues with a build or configuration.
• Enables you to quickly provide data to do an initial prioritization of additional performance tests to be conducted against a build or configuration.
• Helps to determine if a build/configuration is ready for additional performance testing.

Challenges and Areas Not Addressed

• Does not provide a complete data set.
• Many potential performance issues go undetected.
• Is not suitable for predictive analysis or drawing detailed conclusions.
• Results can easily be given more weight than they deserve if not reported properly.

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