Performance Testing Services

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Performance testing is more important now than ever!

It may be hard to believe, but users of mobile and web apps can detect differences in response times of 250 milliseconds or less. Some studies show that 47% of web or mobile app users expect a page to load in less than 2 seconds. If the load takes more than 3 seconds, a significant percentage are GONE!

No one wants to put up with slow performance. Sluggishness often implies unreliability. Whether it be online purchasing, online test-taking, bill payment, or simply browsing for information, the “slower” the app, the less likely users are to keep using it. The internet puts real meaning to the old saying “easy come, easy go.” It is far quicker to lose users than to gain them.

Performance testing is critical.

Performance testing can no longer be done before going live to avoid such issues. It must be performed comprehensively and structured in a testing environment early in the development cycle. When done correctly, performance testing supplements standard functional testing to ensure a great user experience under complex, challenging, and dynamic conditions. The secret sauce to conducting performance testing determines what variables, parameters, and scenarios to test and, more importantly, what data to collect and analyze from the production environment.

Take advantage of XBOSoft’s proven expertise in Software Performance Testing Services and contact us today to find out how we can find your performance bottlenecks before your customers do.

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Do You Need Performance Testing?

Don’t Leave Your Software’s Success to Chance.

Performance tests are generally helpful for any software development project — whether it’s a brand-new software your start-up is developing or a software application spearheaded by a corporation boasting millions of consumers.

Companies with a High Volume of Users

If your software application requires an infrastructure built to sustain thousands of users at the same time, performance tests are key to ensuring your system can scale to meet demand.

Businesses with Mission-Critical Applications

Companies that rely on their applications for core operations or business processes need their applications to work reliably and accurately at all times. Performance tests can help identify bottlenecks, ensure scalability, test under realistic conditions, improve UX, and meet SLAs (service level agreements). 

Developers

Developers can use performance tests to identify performance issues early in the development cycle and to optimize code to improve the application’s performance.

Operations and IT Teams

Operations and IT teams can use performance testing to identify and resolve performance issues in production environments.

Organizations with Limited Resources

Companies with limited resources can optimize their spending by using targeted tests instead of comprehensive tests while still ensuring the quality and reliability of their applications.

Quality Assurance (QA) Engineers

QA Engineers can use performance testing to ensure that the application meets the desired performance requirements and to identify and report any performance issues that must be addressed.

Project Managers

Project managers can use performance testing to track progress and ensure the application meets the desired performance requirements and project timelines.

Business Stakeholders

Business stakeholders, such as product owners, can use performance tests to ensure that the application meets the desired performance requirements and to identify and prioritize any performance issues that must be addressed.

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XBOSoft – 10+ Years of Performance Testing Experience

Experience Matters.

Let XBOSoft support your performance testing needs by utilizing our proven methodologies for load testing, stress testing, load testing, endurance testing, and performance benchmarking to deliver consistent results you can rely on. We’ve worked on many Performance testing projects and have learned the importance of establishing clear and concise objectives based on your needs:

  • Compare two application versions to ascertain the improvement
  • Measure software performance with conditions replicating predicted future user loads
  • Identify performance issues to optimize the user experience
  • Determine application performance and scalability as a function of average and peak load conditions
  • Benchmark third-party products to determine which integrate best with your software
  • Execute load, stress, CHO, and endurance testing to understand where your software’s performance suffers fully
  • Ensure the robustness of your production environment

Please use our proven expertise in Performance Testing Software to design straightforward load tests that deliver actionable results. The critical element here is actionable results. You’ll often run performance tests and end up with more data than you can shake a stick at. Our experience in developing techniques to select and implement performance tests that can deliver clear feedback so that you can target your efforts in improving your application’s performance where it needs it the most is how we help our clients target their efforts and achieve their objectives.

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What Is Performance Testing, and Why Is It Important?

What You Need to Know.

Imagine losing customers because your website takes forever to load or your app crashes when they try to make a purchase. That’s why every industry needs performance testing. Don’t let your slow software be the reason you lose the race. With performance testing, you can ensure that your software runs like a well-oiled machine and stay ahead of the competition.

Why Choose Our Performance Testing Services?

Performance Testing Process Done Right: Our Services Stand Out.

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At XBOSoft, we have the expertise and tools to deliver comprehensive and reliable performance testing services that meet your unique needs and goals. 

Our experienced performance engineers use cutting-edge testing methodologies and tools to identify and address potential performance issues. You can deliver a high-quality product that exceeds user expectations.

Here are some of our most popular types of performance testing services.

Functional Testing

Our engineers focus on verifying that all features work as intended, that user actions are processed correctly, and that it meets the desired requirements.

Load Testing

Our load testing helps you identify the maximum load that your application can handle before it becomes unstable or crashes.

Automated Testing

We test whether your application can meet its performance requirements when running under certain conditions.

Stress Testing

Our stress testing involves pushing your application beyond its normal limits to see how it responds, helping you identify any potential issues before they become critical problems.

Endurance Testing

Our endurance testing helps you identify any memory leaks, performance degradation, or other issues that could impact long-term stability.

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Ensure Your Software Meets Quality and Performance Standards

The Critical Differences Between QA and Performance Testing.

Aspect QA Testing Performance Testing
Purpose Ensuring software quality meets standards and requirements Evaluating software performance under various workloads and stresses
Scope Ensuring software quality meets standards and requirements Specific; focused on evaluating system performance
Types Functional testing, usability testing, security testing, etc. Load testing, stress testing, endurance testing, spike testing, etc.
Primary Concerns Software functionality, user experience, security, etc. System response time, throughput, resource utilization, etc.
Goal Ensure software meets requirements and standards Optimize software performance to handle expected workloads
Timing Throughout the software development life cycle Generally conducted after the software is functionally complete
Impact Helps prevent bugs and improve software quality Helps identify and address performance issues
Test Environment Mimics real-world usage conditions Focuses on stressing the system under various workloads
Test Data Uses a variety of test data to ensure comprehensive testing Uses test data to simulate real-world conditions and workloads

Don’t Let Poor Performance Hold You Back

Why Every Industry Needs Performance Tests.

In today’s fast-paced world, the competition is fierce, and customers demand nothing less than lightning-fast service. Whether you’re running an e-commerce website or a financial institution, the performance of your software can make or break your business. Here’s why.

  • Scalability: Identify the system’s scalability by measuring its ability to handle an increasing workload or user load
  • Improved user experience: Ensures that the system can handle the desired user load without experiencing any delays or failures
  • Cost-effectiveness: Identify potential performance issues early in the development cycle, reducing the cost of fixing the problems later
  • Increased reliability: Ensure the system’s reliability by identifying potential performance issues, such as memory leaks or high CPU utilization, that can cause the system to fail
  • Reduced downtime: Identify potential performance issues that could cause downtime. This helps minimize system downtime, ensuring the system is available when needed.
  • Compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Ensure that the system meets the SLAs, such as response time, throughput, and availability
  • Competitive advantage: A system that performs well can provide a competitive advantage, leading to increased customer satisfaction, higher productivity, and reduced costs

At XBOSoft, we offer comprehensive performance testing services to help you improve the quality and performance of your software. We use a combination of manual and automated testing methodologies to provide reliable and accurate testing results.

Performance Software Testing: How to Start 

Get Ahead of the Competition with Performance Software Testing.

It can be a real challenge to kick-start a Performance Testing program and maintain it moving forward. The term endurance testing is truly apropos in this case. Knowing “why you want to do performance testing” is easy, but determining “what user scenarios you’d like to test” or “what your user distribution is” can present real hurdles to overcome. Software performance testing must be process-oriented within a stable testing environment to achieve your objectives effectively.

A successful performance QA testing program begins with a firm baseline of understanding. The resources below can be a good start for those in the early stages of performance engineering and research:

Software Performance Test Plan Template

Before performance testing can be performed effectively, a detailed plan helps specify how capabilities will be executed from a business and technical perspective, depending on the resources available (time labor/expertise) and the application deployed. Download this general template which can be used to jump-start your software performance and endurance testing efforts. The following topics are addressed:

  1. Develop and confirm an overall approach.
  2. Determine dependencies and baseline.
  3. Conduct pre-performance testing preparation.
  4. Formulate and tune performance testing scenarios.
  5. Execute performance tests
  6. Analyze performance test metrics, results reporting, and summary analysis for the next steps
  7. Assess resources and timelines

Best Practices for Software Performance Testing

Testing software performance is critical in software development projects, especially web-based software applications. As features build up from iteration to iteration and databases grow, access times can expand geometrically.

In these circumstances, software performance testing becomes critical in finding potential bottlenecks before they become customer-facing issues. However, many software performance testing projects fail even after investing significantly in software performance test scripts and tools.

Through XBOSoft’s years of experience in testing software performance in many different testing environments, we’ve developed a set of best practices that can be adapted to your organization’s unique production test environment. We help you find answers to the following questions:

  • Why is software performance testing more important for SaaS and cloud applications?
  • What are the reasons behind failed performance testing, and how to avoid them?
  • How can you get your performance testing on the right track?

Software Performance Testing Optimization

You’ve decided to test your software’s performance, but now you’re thinking, what scenarios should I test?

You could research and insert code into your software to collect user metrics and paths. However, you don’t want to wait; you want to finish it now.

Through XBOSoft’s years of experience in testing software performance in many different environments, we’ve developed some simple heuristics on how to choose performance testing scenarios using Pareto’s principle (the 80-20 rule) to get the most bang for the buck fast based on your organization’s particular workload and situation.

  • Quickly assess which user scenarios should be tested first.
  • Apply different criteria to focus your efforts depending on how much time and resources you have.
  • Get results fast so that you can act to improve your software’s performance.

This white paper will help you strategize user scenarios building when designing a performance testing environment.

Automated Performance & Load Testing: How to Avoid Testing Yourself into a Corner

In this White Paper, see the challenges in using automated performance testing to measure response times under expected site traffic (loads), find out how to determine capacity bottlenecks for the system, and learn how to save time by streamlining the process.

Performance Testing Tools

Apache JMeter: XBOSoft’s Preferred Tool for Structured Performance Testing.

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Over the years, XBOSoft has learned a thing or two about performance testing software and developed deep knowledge in using open source tools such as JMeter and commonly used commercial tools such as HP’s ALM (previously known as LoadRunner).

However, recently XBOSoft decided to standardize JMeter as one of our main performance testing tools because it is highly regarded, widely accepted, and supports all the functions required for structured performance testing. It has been around for almost 20 years, possesses a very active development community, and as it is written in Java, it is considered cross-platform. While JMeter possesses valuable functions, many plugins are available to significantly extend the range and capabilities of JMeter, from test functions to output reports. Additionally, JMeter can test against various interfaces, including HTTP, REST APIs, and others.

There are many benefits offered by open-source software besides a low price. Because many developers are constantly refining open-source software, issues with security and quality can surface quickly and be addressed quickly. Open-source applications can also be tailored flexibly as the business requires, another benefit not easily enjoyed by those using proprietary solutions.

Learn more about how XBOSoft uses JMeter in Performance Testing.

Also, check out our White Paper on Tips with JMeter and see some problems you should avoid!

What Are Your Next Steps?

Take the Next Step in Software Optimization with Performance Testing.

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Performance testing is a necessary process that helps ensure the optimal functioning of software applications. By being able to develop configurations to deliver significant, distributed loads, we can help you simulate what your users are doing and ensure that it can handle expected workloads.

Combined with various analytics, we help our clients discover end-user behavior to target your load tests appropriately. XBOSoft offers comprehensive and customized performance testing solutions to meet your unique needs. Our experienced professionals use the latest tools and techniques to provide accurate and actionable results.

Don’t let performance issues hinder your application’s success. To find out how XBOSoft’s performance test software can find bottlenecks before your customers do, please click below to contact us.

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