Academy Glossary
The Testing Academy glossary defines performance and load testing terms, with each one tied to how it appears in MaxoPerf. It is organized by topic, so you can read a group of related terms together instead of looking up words one at a time.
Where a term also exists in the SEO Glossary, the Academy entry gives the learning treatment (fuller context, worked examples, and MaxoPerf workflow notes) and links back to the canonical card.
Browse by category
Section titled “Browse by category”| Category | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Metrics and results | Latency, throughput, error rate, percentiles, TTFB, Apdex, and how to read run output |
| Load modeling | Virtual users, concurrency, open vs closed model, ramp-up, think time, pacing, arrival rate |
| Test types | Smoke, load, stress, spike, soak, breakpoint, volume, scalability, regression |
| Engines and tooling | Taurus, JMeter, k6, executors, samplers, assertions, scenarios |
| Maxoperf platform | Run, test, runner, Outpost, BYOC, location, workspace, project, failure criteria, artifacts |
| SRE and reliability | SLO, SLA, error budget, saturation, bottleneck, scalability, capacity, Core Web Vitals |
A–Z jump list
Section titled “A–Z jump list”Use this index to jump to any term. Click a letter header to scan, or use browser find (Ctrl+F / Cmd+F) to find a specific term.
- Sampler
- Saturation
- Scalability test
- Scenario
- SLA (Service Level Agreement)
- SLO (Service Level Objective)
- Smoke test
- Soak / endurance test
- Spike test
- Stress test
Where to go next
Section titled “Where to go next”- How to use this library: page conventions and callout types.
- Foundations: core concepts with worked examples.
- SEO Glossary: canonical one-card definitions for key terms.