Performance Testing of User Scenarios and APIs — Are They the Same?

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Compares performance testing of web application user scenarios versus API testing, explaining that while approaches are similar it details how to construct realistic load scenarios and run tests for web UIs and for APIs to obtain reliable results without confusion. Covers practical differences in scripting scenarios, test execution, and result interpretation for web app flows compared to direct API calls.

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1. 0:00Load testing intro
2. 1:11User scenarios vs API tests
3. 10:36Capacity testing importance
4. 21:24Differences demo
5. 31:43Recording scripts
6. 38:23Manual API requests
7. 40:56Authorization tokens
8. 44:53API capacity test
9. 50:21Q&A

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