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title: "What is Scalability Testing?"  
description: "What is Scalability Testing?"  
author: "Mitul Chopra"  
published: 2017-12-12  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31571/what-is-scalability-testing  
category: "technology"  
tags: ["software testing", "scalability testing"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is Scalability Testing?

What is [Scalability Testing](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/576/what-is-scalability-testing-which-tool-is-used)?

## Answers

### Answer by Harsh Srivastava

**[Scalability](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/784/what-are-the-performance-and-scalability-characteristics-of-mysql) [Testing](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/101/acceptance-testing)** is part of **non-functional testing**. It's an ability of **network**, **process** or a system to continue to function well. Its also a kind of **performance testing**, where tester focus on application behaviour while testing the application under excessive load. The purpose of performing **scalability testing** is to identify the reason where the application stops responding or adapting to the changes. **Scalability Testing Attributes:**

- Performance under load
- Request and response of the web server
- Memory and CPU usage
- Network usage
- Performance measurement on the basis of the number of users
- A request, Transaction, and Execution time
- Throughput
- Screen transition
- Response time

## *I Hope It's Informative...*


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