Scalability is the property of a system to handle a growing amount of work by adding resources to the system.

In computing, scalability is a characteristic of computers, networks, algorithms, networking protocols, programs and applications.

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Capability of a product to handle growing or shrinking workloads or the ease with which the product’s capacity can be adapted to handle variability

ISO-25010:2023


This specifies the expected increases in size that the product must be able to handle. As a business grows (or is expected to grow), our software products must increase their capacities to cope with the new volumes.

Volere+2012, p. 55