Open AccessSystematic Literature Review on Web Performance Testing
Author(s) -
Guilherme Legramante,
Maicon Bernardino,
Elisa Rodrigues,
Fábio Paulo Basso
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5753/eres.2020.13739
Subject(s) - computer science , software performance testing , process (computing) , context (archaeology) , scalability , protocol (science) , task (project management) , software engineering , web testing , quality (philosophy) , relation (database) , data science , software , world wide web , web service , data mining , software development , database , web development , web application security , systems engineering , engineering , software construction , philosophy , alternative medicine , pathology , biology , paleontology , epistemology , programming language , medicine , operating system
Performance Testing is essential to ensure the quality and scalability of Web applications. A well-defined process may guide Performance Testing Engineer in conducting this task. We intended to enlighten some major inputs related to web performance testing. For this, we have formulated and executed a given protocol, according to the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) protocol in Software Engineering. So, 37 papers were selected/analyzed and we have extracted their most relevant contribution in order to answer our research questions. This analysis enabled us discovering preeminent performance testing profiles/roles, approaches, artifacts, methods, stages or phases and activity flows that have been reported in the literature. We believe that, despite those several studies that mapping performance test context, there are a few remarks in which a clarification might be needed, once there is no well-established process that comprises the whole activities mapped as well as established a relation with other studies. Therefore, this study intends to provide relevant input that one may establish a novel web performance testing process.