Today in retail, financial services, media, telecommunications and a host of other industries, more and more business is transacted through consumer web sites and mobile applications. With new channels creating spikes in traffic, highly complex system architectures, and internet-savvy customers, websites and web applications must be tested at scale to maximize business results and avoid a catastrophic crash. However, whether due to time or cost or other reasons, upwards of 90 percent of web applications are not fully tested before launching. If testing is done, many times it's with a small percent of expected traffic, which is then extrapolated for an estimation of performance.
Cloud computing is changing the game for testing web applications. Cloud testing enables, for the first time, performance testing that complements the lab and accounts for the conditions in a production environment, such as traffic spikes, network latency, firewalls, and other factors. And it can be done far more affordably than traditional testing methods, as part of agile development cycles, and without an army of highly skilled performance engineers.
9. Inside and outside the firewall
Analytics
Switch
Ad Server
Databases
Search
Session Info CDN Content
CMS Content
Shopping Cart Media Server
Application servers
Load balancers
Payment Server
24. Google loses 20% of search traffic
every 500ms of additional latency
25.
26.
27. 60%
of companies admit that they do not have
any performance management processes
in place or what they have is ineffective.
DynaTrace study- 2009
28. Of companies having
performance management
50% processes admit that they
are doing it only in reactive
way when problem occurs.
DynaTrace study- 2009
29. 50%
of application problems are found in production –
when those problems have impacted end users and
are most expensive to resolve.
DynaTrace study- 2009
30. What is required today to
test effectively
performance of web
applications?
39. Cloud Testing
The massive resources of the cloud have changed the
game for performance testing. Cloud Testing enables
organizations to test their consumer facing Web and
mobile applications fast, affordably and at scale.
There’s now no excuse for the type of Web site disasters
we’ve seen in the past that cost businesses millions in
revenues and perhaps more in reputation.
Tom Lounibos
CEO SOASTA
59. The Cloud
A game changer for web performance testing
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