Load testing approaches of the past support application delivery of the past. Times have changed. Today’s leading companies do more testing in less time with higher coverage of their web and mobile applications, everyday. In this webinar you’ll learn: - Why user experience is king - How to do front-to-back performance testing for mobile and web apps - How to deploy web and mobile load tests with global scale and distribution - Live production testing enabled with real-time analysis and control - How real user monitoring drives test creation and guides production testing The time is now to move your testing from the past to the present! Join us for tips and tricks to get you there.

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Load testing is a team sport
TODAY’S SOASTA PRESENTERS
Ed Salazar: Brad Johnson:
CloudTest Product Manager VP Product marketing
Agenda:
• User Experience is King
• Testing for global, front to back, mobile and web users
• Production is real. Use it to test and for data
Questions:
Submit in chat box during event

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Rapid Delivery
Agile development
Continuous
delivery
DevOps principles
Mobile and Web
Online everything
Mobile commerce
Legacy modernization
Complexit
y
Composite apps
3rd party
services
API proliferation
Unprecedented
Scale
100’s to millions
Local to global
100%
availability

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o Not built for real time feedback across complex tiers
o Assumes slow iterations and long cycle times
o Not focused on the global user experience
o Expensive license and HW dependencies
o Built for the test lab, but locked out of production

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Fast time to results.
SPEED
Hundreds to Millions.
SCALE
Continuously.
AFFORDABILITY

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The Old Way
What would YOU
do with more
time?

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s
Memory leaks
Test Scale
Stage/Team
Dev
& Test
Release
& Deploy
Network
& Ops
CDN file placement
Load Balancer configuration
Network bandwidth
Network configuration
DNS routing
Inadequate server resources
Default configuration settings
Unbalanced web serversAuto-scaling failures
Latency between systems
Slow third-party plug-ins
Garbage collection
Database thread counts
Inefficient database queriesSlow pages
Conflict with other apps
Test Lab Staging Production (100% +++)
Search technology limits
Method-level tuning
Max sockets exceeded
Firewall max capacity
Global latency variance
Security bottlenecks
Top Areas We Find Issues
Performance validation from development to production
Continuous tuning for full-scale…and well beyond

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o Frequent testing from development through production
o Realism and accuracy from the user’s view to the last server
o Real time analytics and integrated monitoring
o End to end optimization from app to infrastructure
o Test cycle acceleration and optimization

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o Include real mobile devices and their “system” metrics
o Test in the production environment
o Test to 2-3x the expected peak traffic levels
o Test across geographies
o Test corner cases
o Measure in real time
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Two Fronts in the Performance War
What good is reliability
if the average page
load time is 10
seconds?
Who cares if the page
load time is 2
seconds if only 10
people can hit the
site?
Page Speed Reliability
BOTH.

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Op
s
Tested apps roll into
production
Real user
performance, usage &
traffic levels
mPulseCloudTest
Dev. & Test
TouchTest

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CloudTest
Performance
(Patent)
PRE-PRODUCTION
Test Build & Editing
TouchTest
Functionality
(Patent filed)
mPulse
Real User
Measurement
PRODUCTION
Dev/Test Feedback Loop
SOASTA Core DNA
SOASTA Global Test Cloud
World’s Largest Test Automation Platform
SOASTA Command & Control
Test & Measurement Automation Grid
(Patent)
Real time, Contextual & Actionable
Intelligence
SOASTA Analytic Engine
In-Memory Performance Analytics
(Patent filed)

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Ed Salazar

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 Mobile & web user behavior is driving pace & scale
 End-to-end load testing should be available everyday
 Testing is about rapid, repeatable, real time results

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