Taking Performance Testing to the Next Level!

Performance testing is an essential activity while delivering critical software applications. Be it an e-commerce web application or a mobile app, identifying and determining the behavior of the traffic that is going to hit is the major concern. In view of past patterns and future outcomes, we need to understand, evaluate, and break down the level of activity that we need to perform to serve them without any deficiency. In addition, we should prepare to handle the situation gracefully if it reaches the peak load.

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How (not) to harm your applications in production environment?

This question always stalks application owners as all applications break during production with some known or unknown issues. This directly impacts customer experience as well as revenue.

However, it doesn’t have to be like this. And, can be avoided with proper performance testing to ensure there aren’t any known issues left un-fixed, followed by production monitoring to ensure the developers and engineers stay alerted for any unknown issues and are able to fix them proactively

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Consider the other 10% who don’t, dead already!

The sale season is on in full swing. I hope your customers are experiencing a great shopping time on your website. I wish you good luck with the hope that your website and applications stay clear of any performance issues.

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And majority of these move on to alternative sites. According to a research, a mobile user is 5X more likely to abandon and move on to alternatives.

Are you aware that a mobile user is likely to make a purchase decision 3x faster than a user on another channel?

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In other words, Do you know – A single generator can free you up of operational nightmares (costs, other operational overheads) of managing multiple generators in your performance testing infrastructure.

Today, hundreds of thousands of users hit a website on a daily basis. During peak sales it crosses million/s. Expect your web application to slow down a bit if not becoming unresponsive.

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Is Your Code Production-ready?

I was asked this question by a retail customer (having an e-com presence) during an executive briefing. Since holiday season is approaching fast, almost every retailer and even banks and other B2C businesses have the same dilemma – How to ensure smooth sailing through the peak season?

Our experience has it that in real world scenario no code is ready till the last minute. There are continuous changes and updates happening till the last moment – some technology driven and some business driven. So the onus is on the performance engineering side to ensure all stats are captured in an event of aberrations or hiccups.

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Performance testing is a complex activity where dozens of factors contribute to its success. The effective use of all these factors is necessary to get repeatable and consistent performance test results.

Recreating a production-like scenario is an essential part of the whole testing activity because minutest of the differences can completely invalidate the test results.

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