Performance Testing

Load and performance testing validates that your system meets latency and throughput requirements under realistic and extreme traffic conditions.

When to Activate

• Load testing an API before a product launch
• Setting up k6 or Locust for a project
• Writing Go benchmark functions for critical code paths
• Defining SLO-based pass/fail thresholds for load tests
• Identifying bottlenecks under load (pool exhaustion, N+1, GC pressure)
• Adding performance regression detection to a CI/CD pipeline

Test Type Decision Table