Comprehensive Website Load and Stress Testing Overview

Website Capacity Testing and planning

When you are expecting a large number of visitors to your website during a sale, a marketing campaign or a seasonal peak you need to be sure that your website will support the increase in traffic. If you are implementing a major web development, a new application, online service or infrastructure change you need to have confidence that it will deliver the best experience to all users, whatever the reason for visiting, at the busiest times.

As a business grows so do the demands on the company website and its underlying infrastructure. These additional loads can impact on performance, and negatively impact customer online experience. Load testing is essential to ensure that Dynamic User Journeys - key routes that visitors take across a website - can manage high volumes of traffic and concurrent users performing transactions, at the most critical times.

Your homepage may function fine but will visitors struggle to place orders, login or set up accounts? SciVisum’s User Journey Load testing is performed from the user’s perspective - simulating an increasing number of concurrent users carrying out multi-page transactions.

SV-Load is engineered to expose limitations and bugs that are likely to appear under stress. Our load performance testing service measures the impact of increasing loads on timings and error rates at every step of a journey and also identifies failure criteria, measures recovery after failure and predicts when upgrades will be necessary.

Whether part of a conscious roll out of ITIL Capacity Management for your website: or whether you're just taking the first steps to get meaningful data of your website capacity planning - there are services to suit.

The SciVisum Test Suite comprises two complementary services, both of which are used to best effect in tandem with the on-going monitoring provided by the SV-Monitoring suite:

SV-Load Test Service

SciVisum Load Testing Service gives you access to expert testers with specialist knowledge to spot problems quickly and provide insights into the root causes of problems. SciVisum’s Load Testing Service offers guaranteed expansive and complex testing sessions often unobtainable from self-servicing due to departmental time constraints.

Our test engineers deliver Load Testing remotely, we write the scripts and perform the tests – no hardware, software or monitoring agents are necessary and no engineering time is lost. The service includes an individual, clear analytical report, meaningful to all departments of the business team and includes a telephone debrief.

• Utilize SciVisum’s high quality hardware and resources
• Obtain SciVisum’s specialist knowledge and proficiency for active results
• Access to the experience of expert testers to spot problems quickly
• Guaranteed expansive and complex testing sessions often unobtainable from self-servicing due to departmental time constraints
• An individual, clear analytical report, meaningful to all departments of the business team
  
  

SV-Load Portal

SciVisum Load Testing Portal is a benchmark QA service. allowing easy and flexible tests at each software release. Where the SV Load Test service fully tests your live site the Load Test Portal is used primarily on ‘staging’ or ‘dev environments’ or for routine ‘health checks’ on maintained sites.

From the dashboard you can easily navigate the portal and access full graphs, error tables, statistical analyses and performance comparison. The portal facilitates the ability to run tests on demand, easily schedule tests during out of office hours, and re-run tests ad-hoc after making periodic adjustments to the website code.

Provides ease and flexibility need by QA Testers

• Instant Benchmarking
• Ability to re-run tests ad-hoc after making periodic adjustments the website code
• Ideal for staging’ or ‘dev environment’ tests
• Reports and documentation for Project Managers
• Extends the functionality of the full Load Test Service and Site Release Management tool.

More Information

What Happens in a Load Test

Self Service Load Testing Portal

Managed Load Testing Service

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