At the highest level and in general, performance testing is almost always conducted to address one or more risks related to expense, opportunities, costs, continuity, reputation or any other act and routine your organization is capable of doing.
Working in environment of sophisticated information technologies and highly competitive market, this means that more then ever we rely and depend on software applications to do our best in those acts and routines. Thus knowing their limits, expanding their boundaries, providing similar yet always improved functionality and doing it all in real-time becomes a paramount today.
We call it question of capability. Capability to adapt applications for ever-changing, fast pacing requirements of daily business, driven both by your customers and employees. There is only one way to learn what they are experiencing: to test applications just as they do.
Do you really know does your application respond quickly enough for the intendent users, whether they are your customers or your employees who drive your business? Do you really know what they are doing with it? Do you know how are they using it? Have you any idea how your customers are surfing on your web site - how long do they wait for some information, or are they able to use everything you would want them to use, when you wanted them to use? And, what will happen if they don’t? And this is just a tip of the iceberg: there are so many questions that we cannot even write them all down. But we all know one thing: if our web sites does not provide our customers with what they need and, furthermore, what they are used to get from us as fullfilment of their needs – they will probably turn to somebody else.
Performance testing is an insurance policy for your investment in your business critical applications. It gives your answers a head of time, before you go live. Performance testing gives you confidence that your users will have a positive experience after go-live day. Performance testing provides you with the knowledge and certainty that your applications are working just as your clients want to use them and just as they have been designed for.
You need to ensure that your web site or software applications will perform well, at and a little beyond your target load, before you deploy. This requires clear, specific and measurable goals, aligned to your customers' needs and aligned to your business strategy. Once you have defined your performance goals and acceptance criteria, you need the tools and expertise necessary to emulate and measure the target load, identify and fix bottlenecks and optimize your systems overall.
And, since we’re already talking like software engineers – you might think you need team of engineers to do this. Actually, no. That is one of the most appealing characteristics of our tool – easy to use, friendly environment, designed for people who like technology but are not programming experts. Our user interface is bristling with drag-and-drop functionalities, enabling you to easily design the load that you are creating as test emulation; furthermore, we developed archetypes, as the emulators of profiles of your users you can also easily define without having to go into command line; then there are our Monitors, special features enabling you to oversee perfomances of your applications both during and, more important, after the testing; also there are omnipresent reports at the end, enabling you to understand the key information needed for seamless functionality of your software.
But most important of all, this techno-business aspect of our tool enables you, as the manager, to quickly asses the situation, make the right decision and leave things in hands of professionals focused on problem solving. No more confusing definitions or different approaches putting you in the position to make your key decisions based on someone else’s oppinion: now you can see for your yourself, and decide for yourself. What else can one wish for?
Working in environment of sophisticated information technologies and highly competitive market, this means that more then ever we rely and depend on software applications to do our best in those acts and routines. Thus knowing their limits, expanding their boundaries, providing similar yet always improved functionality and doing it all in real-time becomes a paramount today.
We call it question of capability. Capability to adapt applications for ever-changing, fast pacing requirements of daily business, driven both by your customers and employees. There is only one way to learn what they are experiencing: to test applications just as they do.
Do you really know does your application respond quickly enough for the intendent users, whether they are your customers or your employees who drive your business? Do you really know what they are doing with it? Do you know how are they using it? Have you any idea how your customers are surfing on your web site - how long do they wait for some information, or are they able to use everything you would want them to use, when you wanted them to use? And, what will happen if they don’t? And this is just a tip of the iceberg: there are so many questions that we cannot even write them all down. But we all know one thing: if our web sites does not provide our customers with what they need and, furthermore, what they are used to get from us as fullfilment of their needs – they will probably turn to somebody else.
Performance testing is an insurance policy for your investment in your business critical applications. It gives your answers a head of time, before you go live. Performance testing gives you confidence that your users will have a positive experience after go-live day. Performance testing provides you with the knowledge and certainty that your applications are working just as your clients want to use them and just as they have been designed for.
You need to ensure that your web site or software applications will perform well, at and a little beyond your target load, before you deploy. This requires clear, specific and measurable goals, aligned to your customers' needs and aligned to your business strategy. Once you have defined your performance goals and acceptance criteria, you need the tools and expertise necessary to emulate and measure the target load, identify and fix bottlenecks and optimize your systems overall.
And, since we’re already talking like software engineers – you might think you need team of engineers to do this. Actually, no. That is one of the most appealing characteristics of our tool – easy to use, friendly environment, designed for people who like technology but are not programming experts. Our user interface is bristling with drag-and-drop functionalities, enabling you to easily design the load that you are creating as test emulation; furthermore, we developed archetypes, as the emulators of profiles of your users you can also easily define without having to go into command line; then there are our Monitors, special features enabling you to oversee perfomances of your applications both during and, more important, after the testing; also there are omnipresent reports at the end, enabling you to understand the key information needed for seamless functionality of your software.
But most important of all, this techno-business aspect of our tool enables you, as the manager, to quickly asses the situation, make the right decision and leave things in hands of professionals focused on problem solving. No more confusing definitions or different approaches putting you in the position to make your key decisions based on someone else’s oppinion: now you can see for your yourself, and decide for yourself. What else can one wish for?
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