Smoke Testing

Use this load testing strategy to make sure both your server and test work fine.

This is a load test you run to prepare for later load testing. Unlike the Baseline test, you do not intend to hit the service-level agreement (SLA), just make sure that there are no errors.

After confirming that everything works fine, you create other load tests.

Test Parameters

To create smoke tests, we recommend using the Smoke load test template. By default, it will create a test with the following parameters:

Parameter	Value
Duration	30 minutes
Load type	VUs
Simulated load	Five virtual users
Wait time	One second
Warmup time	10 seconds
Assertions	Failures – Total
Created monitors	None
Created statistics	Time taken – Average Failures – Per second Running VUs

Important

If the assertion fails, the load test stops.

Here is what your test results may look like:

Tip

Tests can fail for a variety of reasons. Some functional tests that work fine will fail when run as load tests. For more information about test steps that may cause errors, see Preparing Functional Test Cases for Load Test.