Performance Testing Services

Providing application resilience and confidence to government and non-governmental sectors since 2008.

We provide end-to-end services on Performance testing which can optionally include all necessary tools and licences.

Below are some of the services we provide :

• Evaluation of the Application Under Test (with/without formal Risk Assessment document)

• Evaluation/Assessment of Peak Load/Volume Projections

• Evaluation/Assessment of Response time NFRs with the Industry Standards

• Evaluation/Recommendation on testing tools (provide licence if necessary)

• Assessment of the test environment and its sizing

• Evaluation on monitoring tool

• Prepare Performance Test Plan (and Test Strategy if necessary)

• Test Script Development on tools like LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, Neoload

• Test Data creation - prepare scripts, data sheets or assist with prod data masking

• Performance Test Scenario Design

• Performance Test Execution - Load, Soak, Stress, Stress to break, Failover, Fail-back (as necessary)

• Performance Result Analysis and Reporting

• Performance Test Summary Report (with Residual Risks and Recommendation as necessary)

Why Performance Test?

If you are here, we believe you already have an understanding on the importance of Performance testing. However, we have elaborated on its importance which might be useful as a summarised coverage on this topic.

Performance testing is crucial to most applications as it helps to understand how a system behaves under various workloads, ensuring it can handle expected and unexpected demands efficiently and reliably. Without it, we risk deploying applications that are slow, unstable, or prone to failure, leading to poor user experiences and potential business losses.

Here's a breakdown of why performance testing is essential:

• Ensuring Responsiveness and Speed: Users expect applications to be fast and responsive. Performance testing identifies bottlenecks and areas of slowness, allowing developers to optimize the system for better speed and a smoother user experience. Imagine a slow e-commerce site during a flash sale – customers will likely abandon their carts due to frustration.

• Maintaining Stability and Reliability: Performance testing helps determine if a system can remain stable and reliable under heavy load. It uncovers issues like crashes, errors, or resource exhaustion that might occur when many users access the application simultaneously. A system that crashes during peak usage can severely damage a company's reputation.

• Identifying Bottlenecks and Optimizing Resources: By simulating different user loads, performance tests pinpoint the specific components (e.g., database, network, application server) that are causing performance degradation. This allows teams to focus their optimization efforts on the areas that will have the most significant impact, leading to more efficient resource utilization and cost savings.

• Scalability Planning: Performance testing helps determine the system's scalability limits – how much user load or data volume it can handle before performance significantly degrades. This information is vital for capacity planning and ensuring the system can handle future growth. Knowing these limits allows businesses to proactively upgrade their infrastructure before reaching critical points.

• Cost Efficiency: Identifying and fixing performance issues early in the development cycle is significantly cheaper than addressing them after deployment. Performance problems in production can lead to outages, requiring costly emergency fixes and potentially impacting revenue.

• Improving User Satisfaction: A fast, stable, and reliable application leads to satisfied users. Positive user experiences foster loyalty and can enhance a company's brand image. Conversely, poor performance can lead to user churn and negative reviews.

• Validating Infrastructure: Performance testing isn't just about the application itself; it also validates the underlying infrastructure (servers, network, databases). It ensures that the infrastructure can support the application's performance requirements.

• Risk Mitigation: By identifying potential performance issues before a system goes live or experiences peak loads, performance testing helps mitigate the risks associated with poor application performance, such as lost revenue, reputational damage, and decreased productivity.

In essence, performance testing acts as a crucial quality gate, ensuring that applications are not only functional but also performant, reliable, and scalable, ultimately contributing to a successful and positive user experience and achieving business goals.