Spike Testing is a form of testing process in
which an application is tested with unusual increment and decrements in
the load. The system is unexpectedly loaded and unloaded. It is done to notice
how actually the system reacts with unexpected rise and decline of users.
Spike testing example is given below
Considering example when you are always checking the
result of your exam on K.U.K site
means site is suddenly loaded and unloaded and then the IT squad of K.U.K check
how the site reacts with unexpected increase and decrease of users than it is spike testing.
Spike
testing is mechanism of testing which means when in a web
page frequent number of visitor access the page unexpectedly increases to
maximum then obviously performance of the page breaks down. So the mechanism of
testing a performance about web page due to unexpected sort of traffic on the page is always called as Spike
testing.
Spike
testing is usually done by unexpectedly increasing the
number of loads generated by users by a very enormous amount and observing the
dramatic behavior of the system.
