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Mastering High Performance with Kotlin

You're reading from   Mastering High Performance with Kotlin Overcome performance difficulties in Kotlin with a range of exciting techniques and solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788996648
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Igor Kucherenko Igor Kucherenko
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General performance metrics

Benchmarking is a small part of performance testing. The main focus of performance testing is checking software:

  • Speed: To determine how fast the application responds
  • Scalability: To determine the maximum number of users that an application can handle
  • Stability: To determine how the application invokes its functions under different loads

Types of performance testing

The most common performance problems revolve around response time, speed, load time, and scalability. These issues impact the most important attribute of an application: speed. Therefore, the main purpose of performance testing is to make sure that your application runs fast enough to keep a user's attention. There are a lot...

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