Applications
break the barriers of time and space and connect an enormous population of
users with an organization. To be successful, the application is supposed to be
consistent against expected usage patterns.
System
crashes and delays in loading time/transactions are among the major reasons for
the decline in user base. Since the device landscape is undergoing
diversification due to different versions of OSs, platforms and usage patterns, Performance testing requirements are evolving into more complex and even more
demanding challenges.
For an
enterprise, it is a matter of survival to ensure that the IT initiatives
perform as expected. Hence there is an ever growing demand to understand the levels
of performance and identify the bottlenecks and reasons that can be manipulated
to improve the outcomes.
Performance
counters in LAN, WAN and load generation from a combination of Virtual users
and real users are being required to address new business scenarios to
complement the innovative strategies that are unique to organizations.
A faster go
to market depends on the ability to ensure a quick and comprehensive system to
test concurrency, thorough and render response times. In addition, the reporting
is expected to support the performance re-engineering initiatives and retest
the applications.
It comes as
no surprise that development efforts need to be augmented with performance test
expertise to ensure minimum post production defect density. It also makes sense
to strengthen the development with a performance oriented approach that
enhances the quality of business outcomes.
But the
conventional approach of exporting test requirements weighs on the cost, time
and efforts. Further the distance in communication tends to blur the business
priorities as the technical specifications become clear.
The recent
success of the Colocated testing model is gaining momentum by offering cost
benefit and QA maturity to the enterprises. Colocated performance testing places
testers into the development environment and integrates the test expertise in
close proximity to the development initiatives.
The most
surprising advantage of the model is the real time reporting, recommendations
and retesting. This advantage is known to have helped organizations discover a
majority of defects very early in the SDLC and avoid gigantic losses with
surgical precision.
The testers
in addition leverage the cloud capabilities, tool licences and technology
partnerships of the testing service provider to the advantage of the
enterprise. With very high degree of customization and the benefit of an
unbiased assessment, this model ensures a symbiotic relationship that strengthens
cause and effect relationships in the IT system to give impeccable performance.
