Software Testing Outsourcing Starting Guide
Software testing is a critical component of the software development lifecycle. It helps companies identify mistakes and errors made during development and allows them to eliminate these mistakes before deployment. However, inexperienced testing staff can miss errors during software testing. Since resolving software issues and bugs after the deployment is not only difficult but also […]
What Is Load Testing in Software and Why You Need It?
Load testing is a type of software testing that enables teams to evaluate software performance under varying user loads. The main purpose of load testing is to test the application under expected real-world scenarios (learn more about What is Load Testing?). Testing professionals usually apply load testing when the project is nearing its completion. With […]
Load Testing Metrics: How to Verify Success of Performance Testing
One of the major problems affecting a website’s performance and competitiveness is its inability to cope with the burden of heavy traffic. This in turn leads to an inability to meet all users’ demands without cracks, temporary display errors or response speed. Consequently, the burden on the site is essential in determining its success and […]
Using a REST Request Emulator in a Real-life Project
A large governmental enterprise that processes a huge amount of various documents has recently approached us. We had to organize the autonomous testing process of key subsystems, which comprise the automated information system. Moreover, we couldn’t use an out-of-box solution (client’s specification), so we had to develop a custom tool that would satisfy the client’s requirements.
Testing Environment for Performance and Load Testing
In any software development project, it is critical to carry out test plans that guarantee that the application’s performance requirements are met. From the most obvious perspective, performance tests are a set of tests that allow us to measure the speed of execution of a series of tasks in a system under certain conditions. To […]
Loading Testing with Citrix for Non-Standard Protocols
Load testing is necessary when deploying any new system or redistributing data streams among existing systems. I think everybody knows this or at least would guess this is the case.Everything seems simple: grab your load testing tool, record some traffic, get some scripts, run your tests, and enjoy the process. At least that’s the theory… […]
Load Testing for SAP Applications
As any enterprise expands, to ensure the platform’s reliability our customer hired PFLB to conduct load testing.
PFLB’s work helped the client make an informed decision about deploying the system into a production environment. Performance optimization based on an analysis of the test results reduced the time required to complete the main logistics business scenario by more than 2 times and increased the speed of individual transactions by up to 8 times.
Siebel CRM Load Testing
Our company was approached during the Bank’s transformation, in which they expected increasing demand for its products, leading to more user operations and higher system load. The system being tested is a credit approval system based on Siebel CRM. The system provides functionality for working with card and credit products, making it possible to conduct the full range of credit-servicing operations.