Editing Software performance testing (section)

=== Load testing ===
[[Software load testing|Load testing]] is the simplest form of performance testing. A load test is usually conducted to understand the behavior of the system under a specific expected load. This load can be the expected concurrent number of users on the [[application software|application]] performing a specific number of [[Transaction processing|transaction]]s within the set duration. This test will give out the response times of all the important business critical transactions. The [[database]], [[application server]], etc. are also monitored during the test, this will assist in identifying [[bottleneck (software)|bottleneck]]s in the application software and the hardware that the software is installed on