1. Why performance test is important?
Feature and functionalities of system software to deliver are not the only purposes. Application performance metrics such as response time, efficiency, resource utilization, and scalability are matters of concern.
The main objective of performance tests is to identify bottlenecks causing degradation of the performance of a system,
It is crucial to improve the performance of an application before it goes into production at the risk of losing potential users.
The poor performance of your system can directly affect the reputation of your business. It is, therefore, essential to provide the means to check the expected performance for each critical feature.
2. Performance Testing and APM: Why both are essential for your business?
Many organizations use APM tools to monitor the availability and performance of their systems. And at the same time, others use only performance testing tools to ensure the scalability of their applications and identify bottlenecks. But like toast and butter, the real magic comes when the two ingredients are combined, APM and performance tests. The advantages of this combination are reflected by:
3. Types of Performance Testing
4. Overview of performance test strategies by test type
5. Performance Testing Process
1. The test environment: test environment, hardware, software, network configuration, and test tools available are essential information to collect first to build a performance test project effectively.
2. Performance Criteria: to define the objectives and constraints of throughput, response time and resource allocation.
3. Plan and Design: identify critical scenarios, establish an execution schedule and identify the data needed for performance testing.
4. Set up the test environment: Prepare the test environment before running tests. Organize tools and other resources as well.
5. Implement test design: write the performance tests scripts according to the test design.
6. Execution: execute and supervise the tests.
7. Analyze, adjust and test: Consolidate, analyze and share test results with stakeholders.
6. Performance indicators
The most common performance issues are often related to speed issues, load latency, or poor adaptation to scalability. These problems often lead to the company losing potential users. Hence the importance of identifying the causes of:
- Long charging time
- Poor response time
- Poor scalability
- Bottleneck
7. Roles and responsabilities
Performance testers are an essential resource for any software project. Several stakeholders may have a role and responsibilities for carrying out performance tests: