Software Performance Testing
In a digital world where consumers call the shots, it's essential that your website or mobile app delivers fast and efficient services. Performance testing is essential to prevent any bottlenecks and to increase customer satisfaction and retention by reducing wait time.
Ironically, performance is usually top of mind, but performance testing isn’t. Software and mobile app performance testing must be done as early as possible in the development cycle, especially if performance metrics are going to affect the overall architecture of the solution you’re building.
Performance output and ease of customer satisfaction while interacting with your software is a key focus point for our performance teams while servicing your business performances needs.
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Performance testing benefits
Often included as an afterthought, performance testing is usually done at the end of a project or just-in-time before a major product release, or when something goes wrong in production. Fortunately, companies are starting to pay closer attention to performance testing earlier in the software development testing lifecycle. Some companies are also adding performance testing into continuous integration. There is also a range of new performance testing tools available on the market, which makes performance testing so much faster – and therefore more effective.
Find out more about the value performance testing can add to your project by watching this video.
You will learn:
- What is performance testing and why you need it?
- What does performance testing measure?
- What improvements can I expect?
Why performance testing is important
Apart from ensuring that your website or app does not keep the customer waiting, proactive software performance testing is essential during mass events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. By analysing KPIs from previous critical mass events, steps can be taken to ensure critical systems are ready for the massive spike in traffic volume. Some of the critical performance factors we test for include:
Response time
Throughput
Resource utilization
Maximum user load
Behaviour under stress
At Inspired Testing, we want to make performance testing as accessible and affordable as possible. We structure and allocate our skills and resources so that time-consuming scripting is billed to less expensive resources, with more experienced consultants overseeing the process.
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Frequently asked questions
What is performance testing?
Open or ClosePerformance testing is a type of software testing which ensures a system performs well under pressure. The goal is not to find defects but to eliminate performance bottlenecks, measuring the quality attributes (ie. speed, scalability and stability) of your system or application.
What is performance testing in Agile?
Open or CloseAn integral part of Agile processes is to develop higher quality software in less time while reducing development costs (ROI). The goal of performance testing is to test performance early and often in the SDLC and to test performance and functionality in the same sprint.
Why do we need performance testing?
Open or ClosePerformance testing provides crucial information about an application or system and points out what needs to be improved before a product goes to market. Software might suffer if issues around speed, scalability and stability requirements aren't identified. Our performance testing services and QA expertise will give you peace of mind to achieve maximum results.
What are the different types of performance testing?
Open or ClosePerformance testing types include: load testing, endurance testing, stress testing, volume testing, spike testing and scalability testing.
What do performance testing metrics include?
Open or ClosePerformance metrics commonly include: throughput, memory, response time, bandwidth and CPU interrupts per second.
What are the best performance testing tools?
Open or CloseHere are just some of the tools used for performance testing; NeoLoad, LoadRunner, LoadNinja, Apache JMeter, LoadUI Pro, LoadView, Silk Performer, WebLoad, AppLoader and Smartmeter.io
What are the benefits/ advantages of performance testing?
Open or CloseInspired Testing delivers specialised performance testing services helping your company:
- to validate the fundamental features and help the leaders in your company make key decisions in delivering successful software.
- to measure the performance speed, accuracy and stability of the software
- keep users happy, engaged and coming back for more
- identify discrepancies to iron out any issues
- improve optimization and load capability so that volume don't affect your software when you hit high levels of users.