Load testing is the process of discovering how many concurrent users your web app can support. You generally perform it on a test environment with a tool that gradually ramps up a simulated load, for example, JMeter (http://jmeter.apache.org/). Perhaps, you'd prefer using a JMeter-compatible cloud service, such as BlazeMeter, or an alternative, such as Loader.io, if your test systems are web-facing.
Load testing can take a significant amount of time depending on the scale of your service because it can be configured to continue until the test environment gets unacceptably slow for users or falls over and becomes unresponsive. You need to be extremely careful with load testing and not only from the point of view of accidentally ...
