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{{Short description|Testing performance under a given workload}}
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In software quality assurance, '''performance testing''' is in general a testing practice performed to determine how a system performs in terms of responsiveness and stability under a particular workload.<ref name="tha12" /> It can also serve to investigate, measure, validate or verify other quality attributes of the system, such as scalability, reliability and resource usage.

Performance testing, a subset of performance engineering, is a computer science practice which strives to build performance standards into the implementation, design and architecture of a system.