Testing Major Meat Producer's SAP Makes System 8 Times Faster by 8 times increased document processing speed by 6 times further business growth Successful data migration to SAP We helped the customer make an informed decision about deploying the system into a production environment How the need for SAP load testing arose Our client, a major nation-wide meat producer, was actively using local WMS and TMS. As a result, their 5,000 employees used to waste much time and effort storing and processing a lot of data in different systems. To increase the effectiveness of the document flow ..read more

Performance and Load Testing using Locust If you would like to write user scenarios in plain-old Python using a distributed and scalable tool with a Web-based UI, this article is just for you. Low threshold makes Locust attractive for junior testing engineers, whilst many senior engineers turn to Locust, too, when they get tired of Apache JMeter. Whether you are junior or senior, if you’ve ever wondered how to use Locust for load testing, we are sure you will enjoy this intro, as seamless as it is. After reading it, you will be able to start your load tests in Locust right away. Table o ..read more

Performance Testing for Online Games and Game Servers Online gaming is booming, and the demand for online games will be persistent in upcoming years. The global gaming market was valued at USD 173.70 billion in 2020, and it is expected to reach a value of USD 314.40 billion by 2026. One of the important growth factors is, perhaps, the pandemic, since multiple lockdowns made people stay at homes and turn to game platforms to pass the time. But it also created unexpected load growth on gaming servers all around the world. Obviously, in such circumstances the QA sector of load testing for o ..read more

Web Performance Testing: What It Is and Why You Need It Performance testing is one of the most challenging components of web application testing. But it is worth it: if done right, performance testing can forecast product behavior and its response to user’s actions with an impressive amount of detail and precision. Irrelevant web performance test data or wrong metrics chosen during testing cost companies a lot of money and effort, while not monitoring your web application performance at all can lead directly to a crash, say, on Black Friday, if you are not prepared to handle an increased ..read more

Performance Testing for Massive Bank Systems: Our Experience Performance Lab has recently started testing a large-scale banking system. It was extremely difficult to organize a well-established testing process, so we’re sharing our ideas for you not to reinvent the wheel. Table of Contents 1.  Major challenges when testing large scale systems 2. Purpose of the CCP module 3. Configuration of the test environment 4. Tests performed 5. Non-functional requirements 6. Four operation modes of the CCP module in performance testing 6.1. Module start 6.2. Peak utilization of the module 6.3 ..read more

Performance Lab Grabs GoodFirms Recognition for Exclusive Mobile App Development Services With over 13 years of experience, Performance Lab provides premium load and performance testing services for companies ranging from startups to enterprise-sized companies. They deliver expected value to their clients using a robust methodology, tools, and experienced engineers. The company is known for its bottleneck localization and performance optimization guidelines. By providing testing solutions to global customers Performance Lab has built up a reputation for reliability in the industry. GoodFirm ..read more

Part 3 Automating performance testing results: best practices Programming with Grafana and InfluxDB for load testing engineers In Part 1 of this tutorial, we had a close look on how to update your load testing environment to make load testing results automation possible. Instead of preparing your load testing report manually for days, with the environment discussed above, your data structure will depend on you, not you on your data structure.  In Part 2, we’ve tackled a problem that engineers in every load testing company complain about, — namely, how Grafana slows down the system ..read more

Android apps performance and load testing: tips and tricks Similar Android apps can be designed in very different ways. Depending on the approach taken, seemingly identical apps consume different amounts of smartphone resources. Applications working under Android OS can consume different amounts of memory or CPU time. They can affect the battery life in different ways, or download more or less data over the network. Overall, all of these parameters affect the look and feel and performance of your android app. This is what distinguishes a high-quality app from an average one. There are ab ..read more

Why is performance testing before Black Friday a must? Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner, so it’s your last chance to take a look at previous years’ results for business and do the math. Together with Christmas sales, these three events make up for the peak load in Internet traffic. ECommerce and mobile apps endure the highest load and expect great profits.  In 2020, Cyber Monday garnered $10.8 billion, which makes it the biggest eCommerce day in US history. Black Friday sales volume was $9bn, which is almost 20% more than 2019. The pandemic made online sales ..read more

Project management in performance and load testing projects There are basically two models of providing performance testing services to the customer: outstaff and fixed price. If your customers chose outstaffing, it means they have an experienced testing engineer on staff. This person will be able to set goals and tasks for the testing process and act as a performance testing manager. In this case, they only pay your engineers’ hours, and take full responsibility for the results. Fixed price means that the responsibility is on your side. Your customer can’t run the tests themself, and wa ..read more