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What types of performance testing do you know, and what metrics do people look at in those tests?

~4 min by voice

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The interviewer wants to see whether you can tell types of performance tests apart by their goal (expected load, the limit, duration, a surge) and whether you understand which metrics to judge the results by, especially why percentiles matter and not the average.

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