Stress and load testing for maximum application’s productivity

Why is it important?

Performance

Your application is meant to satisfy your business needs, handling user requests and providing answers. Testing its capabilities under the most probable scenarios helps to strengthen it against future downtimes or struggles with answering incoming user influx.

User experience

Stress/load testing will help you research how your application behaves under heavy traffic. The more thoroughly the app is tested, the better service it will provide to your clients. Your business metrics depend on the end-users and how your application makes them feel. Make every effort for the app to stay robust and inviting, despite the volumes it needs to handle.

When might you need stress testing/load testing?

Before going live with your product, and showing it to the world in its full bloom, double-check how the system behaves under expected workloads. Whenever you feel your application may not be working as efficiently as it should for you to meet your objectives, take time to examine its capabilities.

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You wish to investigate how your application performs under heavy user load

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You’re concerned about the performance limitations of your application and wish to diagnose its load capacity

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You aim to identify bottlenecks troubling your application – areas requiring most urgent optimization

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You need to diagnose key systems’ elements inhibiting scaling of your application (database, the server, storage, etc.)

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Your product became a spectacular success, and you need to secure its future operations

Stress testing/load testing at NeuroSYS in a nutshell

How long will it take?

3-5 days

Our stress testing/load testing process usually takes from 3 to 5 days, during which we focus on the identification and analysis of possible issues impairing your application's workflow. To make the most of the experience and fully benefit from tests tailored to your needs, inspect your app’s architecture to prepare a demo to start with.

What happens during stress testing/load testing?

You present a demo of your app, indicating modules and systems functionalities critical from the business point of view, along with the functionalities used most often by your users (or by the biggest audience)

You grant us access to the staging environment for test users in various roles

Together we analyze the system, taking into account user behavior – what actions are performed under which workloads (logging in, generating reports, uploading files etc.)

Based on the gathered data, we draft individual testing scenarios, estimating particular workloads, acceptable response times, number of sessions, request volumes

We prepare automated performance tests according to the scenario

Together with you (the admin, architect, programmer), we conduct performance tests based on the scenarios

The executed tests result in monitoring logs, enabling identification of bottlenecks