Performance Test - CI/CD Glossary Definition
A performance test quantifies how fast and efficient a system is under load.
A performance test measures the speed, responsiveness, and resource efficiency of a system under a given workload, establishing baselines for latency and throughput.
A performance test quantifies how fast and efficient a system is under load.
In CI
Teams track performance metrics across builds and fail the pipeline when a change regresses latency beyond a threshold, catching slowdowns before they ship.
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