What is Spike Testing?
It is a part of performance-testing.
It comes under non-functional-testing.
It helps to findout the weakness of an application.
It helps to estimate the behavior of the system under sudden increase or decrease of user load.
It helps to determine the how much low it will take to recover the system.
It checks the stability of system during rushes of simultaneous occurrence of users
Tools for Spike Testing:
JMeter
WebLoad
Load Runner
Advantages of Spike Testing:
This testing surely provide a positive result.
It maintain the performance of system in any condition.
This testing saves system application from crashing.
Disadvantages of Spike Testing:
Ignorance of the defect can be dangerous.
It is very expensive testing tool.
Tester should be highly knowledgeable.