Understanding the Benefits of Performance and Load Testing
Performance and load testing involve reviewing ROI considerations, site functionality, and overall application quality, performance and load testing.
This preliminary test is essential to any web application development process. It ensures that the site or application will work well and as intended once it goes live. Load, stress, and performance testing are crucial. They answer important questions regarding the application or program being designed such as:
- Will the application fall apart under a specific load?
- Will pre-defined targets be met?
- How many simultaneous visitors or users can the application or website handle?
Through testing, different performance problems can be detected and thus fixed. Common performance problems can occur due to many reasons. They may be software configuration issues on the server, database, or load balancer-end, poor network configuration, un-optimized software code or insufficient hardware resources, among others. Mostly, the way you can pinpoint these problems is by conducting a load or performance test. Here you simulate many visitors simultaneously, using the site or the application. By determining the load a current web or app design can handle, it is easier to point areas needing improvement in performance and load handling.
These tests often go hand-in-hand, allowing you to address common problems as well as issues unique to your program well before the launch of your website or your application. This eliminates unnecessary costs for fixing bugs and errors that might arise along with other problems they may cause along the way.
Find a bespoke software developer that offers performance and load testing as an integral part of the development process. Make sure you get an end product that is well-designed and tested for functionality and performance.