Benefits of Cloud-Based Performance Testing

 

Performance testing is crucial for applications to perform as expected in the real world. Business-critical applications need thorough testing to make sure that they can bear the stress of changing demands.

However, the use of traditional performance testing requires a significant investment of time, money, and resources- serving as an obstacle to acceptance and leading some enterprises to limit the performance testing they undertake. Traditional in-house testing can no longer provide the necessary level of performance certainty necessary to complete in today’s universal marketplace. Cloud-based performance testing provides a way to test across platforms and geographies without slowing the time-to-market. Cloud-based performance testing ensures volume even in the extreme performance situations. By allowing the test teams to rapidly set up existing performance test scripts to cloud-based load generators, the load is generated on pre-configured systems provisioned in the cloud. The cost and effort related to extending the in-house test infrastructure are eliminated which is only needed by the highest load scenarios.

Moreover, diagnosis of any performance related issue (if it arises) can be provided by cloud-based services. The detailed diagnostics received by the team is helpful in pinpointing the location and nature of the problem to remediate quickly. Combined with an in-house performance monitor, it’s accurate to realize the demands on the server infrastructure in the data center which provides end-to-end transparency. 

Cloud-based testing offers various benefits to support the business industries without disruption:

1.      Global Readiness : Cloud technologies can not only enable performance management teams to evaluate the applications’ global readiness but also helps in conducting tests across the globe by imitating virtual users in different locations to ensure that the application or the website can handle global audiences.

2.      Performance Guaranteed : Cloud-based infrastructures are compatible to generating the required scalability and peak demands for enterprise performance testing.

Scalability and peak load in the cloud takes advantage of the capability to run the tests virtually. Businesses can schedule time for a test and the resources are provisioned automatically. Scheduling becomes more flexible, serving to eliminate long delays as internally managed hardware is verified and deployed by the IT department.

3.      Enterprise Application Coverage : Combining traditional approaches with the cloud capabilities provides an optimal model to accomplishing high assurance in production performance, with sufficient agility and economy than using the traditional methods only. By implementing the performance testing solution through the cloud, the IT department can manage heavy loads effectively and affordably on the device’s applications and website. 

4.      Cost Control : The scalability of the cloud helps in scaling computing resources up or down to ensure that the website or application performance is reasonably-priced. Using the utility-style pricing, companies only need to pay for what they use. In contrast to the traditional in-house model, a company would acquire computing power to support large user tests for the entire lifespan of the application.