Benefits Of Performance Testing

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If you took time to have a conversation with Appvance developers, staff and customers, you would quickly realize the huge role that performance testing or mobile testing professioanals play in guarding your company’s brand image.

If you took time to have a conversation with Appvance developers, staff and customers, you would quickly realize the huge role that performance testing or mobile testing professioanals play in guarding your company’s brand image. A lot of agile testing professionals underrate themselves and this has to change. The Appvance CTO, Frank Cohen, is fond of telling this story about how a forerunner of the current Appvance product quelled a “bank robbery.” Here it is:

A well known bank was in the final stages of completing a premier banking web app. It appeared to be working fine when Frank and his team begun revving up the stress by adding thousands of virtual users, all using the app at the same time. Everything was okay until the stress test pushed the number of simultaneous users beyond the 5000 mark. At this point, thinks went awry and the app begun mixing the virtual ...
... users’ bank accounts, with money from one user falling into the account of another. A tech savvy criminal could have taken the opportunity to move huge amounts of money around before anyone realized what was going on.

Now think about it, had the banking app been released before having Frank’s team perform cloud testing and HTML5 testing, customers from as far as 12 timezones away would have noticed the glitch, and immediately flooded social media sites like Facebook and Twitter with the news. By the time the bank caught wind on the news, well, you can only imagine! The point is that undertaking performance testing for this app at a real life stress level saved this bank from a catastrophic blow to its brand image. Remember, this is a bank that frequently headlines international financial news and the daily business news in its home markets. Such a colossal mistake could send its share price plummeting and leave a dent on its reliability record.

Naturally, you would not want to be part of the team that failed to see the problem. With a number of mobile testing tools a mediocre tester can use lack of good tools as their defense, claiming that it was not possible to predict the problem. However, testers providing professional web testing services take full advantage of improvements in testing frameworks, leaving no room for excuses. Nowadays, anyone associated with the major failure of a company’s app has no place left to hide.

Therefore, before releasing your app into the market, you want to hire an experienced and competent team of stress test professionals to determine whether your app makes the cut by using cloud testing tools. The unbiased approach that testers employ can prove to be your last defense against the leakage of faulty apps into the market. Companies that are truly customer driven and passionate about satisfying their customers’ needs have realized the immense value of hiring third party testers to ensure their apps are flawless. This not only goes for the functionality but also the basic design of the apps in order to give your customers the best mobile or web experience
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