Glossary term
Load testing
Load testing measures how an application behaves under expected and peak numbers of users or requests, tracking response times, errors and resource use. Tools such as JMeter and k6 simulate traffic so teams can find bottlenecks before real users do.
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More terms
Agentic testingAI hallucinationAI red teamingAnswer relevancyAPI testingBehaviour-driven development (BDD)CI quality gateContext precisionEnd-to-end testingExploratory testingFaithfulnessFlaky testGolden datasetIntegration testingJailbreakLLM evaluationLLM guardrailsLLM-as-a-judgeModel Context Protocol (MCP)OWASP Top 10 for LLM ApplicationsPage Object ModelPrompt injectionRegression testingRetrieval-augmented generation (RAG)SDETSelf-healing testsSmoke testingTest automationTest caseTest pyramidVisual regression testing
