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Automation vs performance testing

I am a beginner in performance testing and I would like to ask, with automation testing is it possible to be transformed into performance testing?

For example, I have the code of an automation of the login scenario for X users, will it be a good practice if I use the statistics of the code run to represent it as a performance diagram?

Solution

  • Up to certain extent yes, you will get response time and may be some relationship between the number of users and response time, however there are some constraints as well:

    1. Most probably you won't get all the metrics and KPIs you can get with the protocol-level-based-tools
    2. Browsers are very resource intensive, i.e. Firefox 94 system requirements are at least 1 CPU core and 2 GB of RAM per browser instance

    So I would rather think not about re-using existing automation tests for checking the performance, but rather converting them into a performance test script to get better results and less resource footprint