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Performance and security !!!

Performance
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* Connection speed:
1. try with connection speed: 14.4, 28.8, ISDN, Cable, DSL, T1, T#.
2. Time out occurrence.

* Load:
Check or measure the following
a. What is the estimated number of users per time period and how will it be divided over the period?
b. Will there be peak loads and how will be the system reacts.
c. Can your site handle a large amount of users requesting contain page?
d. Large amount of data from users.

* Stress:
Check for the following things.
a. Typical areas to test are forms, logins or other information transaction components.
b. Performance of memory, CPU, file handling etc..
c. Error in hardware, software, memory errors (leakage overwrite or printers)

Security
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• Valid and Invalid login.
• Limit defined for the number of tries.
• Verify log files are maintained to store the information for traceability.
• Verify encryption is done correctly if SSL is used.
• No access to edit scripts on the server without authorize

Security Testing
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* If your site requires firewalls, encryption, user authentication, financial transactions, or access to databases with sensitive data, you may need to test these and also test your site's overall protection against unauthorized internal or external access.

Performance Testing !!!

PERFORMANCE TESTING

Performance testing can be applied to understand your application or WWW site's scalability, or to benchmark the performance in an environment of third party products such as servers and middle ware for potential purchase. This sort of testing is particularly useful to identify performance bottlenecks in high use applications. Performance testing generally involves an automated test suite as this allows easy simulation of a variety of normal, peak, and exceptional load conditions.


There are two types of performance testing. They are
1. Load Testing
2. Stress Testing