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Performance testing

Performance testing is the practice of determining how applications, hardware, networks, databases, etc will perform under pressure. The main goal is to improve speed, scalability, stability and reliability. Performance issues have a nasty habit of turning up late in the application life cycle. The later you discover them, the greater the cost and effort to resolve.

Process

How we test the performance of your digital application

Every project starts with defining clear goals and assigning responsible persons (at your side and ours). Further on the benchmarks are set, what do we expect to know after testing had been done? Then a straight forward process starts:

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1. Identify the stakeholders

Who to include to get a better understanding of what to test and who can help when performance issues are found

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2. Understand the situation

What is the architecture, normal usage of the system, number of concurrent users, what do we want to test, what is the goal of the test…

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3. Decide on KPI’s, tooling and parameters to monitor

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4. Agree on the needed scripts

What are the actions we need to simulate?

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5. Define the scenarios

For each script; how many virtual users do we want to run, ramp-up, simulate different devices and browsers, load different countries, …

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6. First sets of runs

Identify and improve the found issues followed by a debrief of the results and a baseline for future runs

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7. Include performance in the testing routine as a whole

Boxes to check for the best ROI

✓ Choose the best tooling, suitable for your case. Also if this means throwing another one out the window. Our experts are skilled in both open-source as paid tooling. We are vendor-independent, so you can count on an honest and objective advice.

✓ Dare to automate when you integrate. Experience taught us automating the right test scripts at the right time increases your ROI significantly.

✓ Be prepared to test, don’t test to be prepared. Allocate budget and resources to test the performance of your application from the start. The later you discover bugs, the more you pay to fix them.

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