Software Performance Testing
Template
Pipefy’s Free Software Performance Testing Template was specially developed to help you plan, organize and manage your software performance tests – from determining which features need to be tested, to writing a case design and the actual execution of your test case.

Template structure
See how this template is structured. As this is just an example, you can customize it.
Backlog
These are all the features waiting to be tested.
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1. What's the priority of this test?
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2. Who will be responsible for this test?
Identify your testing environment
Define how your testing environment will be.
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1. Identify the hardware
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2. Identify the software
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3. Network configurations
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4. Tools available
Identify performance metrics
Define what are the performance metrics to check your test.
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1. What metrics will be used to analyse the test
- Average load time
- Peak response time
- Error rate
- Concurrent users
- Requests per second
- Transactions passed/failed
- Throughput
- CPU utilization
- Memory utilization
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2. Parameters utilized
Test Case Design
Write your test case like it’s a recipe!
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1. Test case description
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2. When will you run the tests?
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3. Test case design/plan
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4. Test conditions
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5. Test's performance goals
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6. Expected results
Configuring the test environment
Set the test environment.
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1. Set the test environment
Test Case Execution
Run the tests you’ve developed and check whether the results meet your expectations.
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1. What were the test's results?
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2. What's this test status?
- Passed
- Failed
- Not tested
- Can't be tested
- Not applicable
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3. Do you have any comments?
Regression Testing
Will the software still perform correctly after feature or interface changes? Let’s find out!
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1. What were the regression testing outcomes?
Done
Done … For now! As soon as you make changes to software that was already tested, you should move the card back to ‘Regression testing’!