The Agile movement has had a huge impact on software development, same as on testing and quality assurance. Agile practices power innovation and organisations gain competitive advantage, minimizing costs and improving operational efficiency. They provide a means for establishing coherent, repeatable processes, as well as managing consistent and accurate information across the application lifecycle.
Performance testing, as a whole, is one of the most important things you can do when building out a application. The benefits of load and performance testing include determining how much load an application can handle before it crashes in production, when to add another server, when to reconfigure the network, where code needs to be optimized, etc. What is not known is that when these two practices are combined, they can lead to additional benefits:
Performance testing, as a whole, is one of the most important things you can do when building out a application. The benefits of load and performance testing include determining how much load an application can handle before it crashes in production, when to add another server, when to reconfigure the network, where code needs to be optimized, etc. What is not known is that when these two practices are combined, they can lead to additional benefits:
‘Test Early, Test Often’
When performance testing is only conducted at the end of a development cycle, there is little or even no time for developers to make changes. This can cause huge delays on release dates that impacts time to market and customer satisfaction. In some cases, where the issues are small, teams may decide to proceed and launch the application into production while accepting the underlying risks. If the performance problems are more serious, they could even require painful architectural changes that could take weeks or months to implement and re-test.Cost Savings
By conducting performance testing early, organizations can identify performance issues early before they get much more expensive to fix. Developers can instantly know that the new feature in the latest build has caused the application to no longer meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs). When it comes to Agile teams that are used to release code faster and more often, discovering an issue could mean that the root cause could be in several builds ago which makes it a nightmare.Deliver Ultimate Customer Experience
In today’s application economy, changes are happening incredibly fast. Integrating load and performance testing into the process before these changes are deployed to production, it can ensure that your users will get all the goodies without the bad user experience. This can be a life saviour for your company; saving you thousand or even millions in lost revenue from users switching to competitors’ apps or giving your brand a bad reputation because of the problems they faced.When adding performance testing into your Agile process, you should ensure that performance is a priority in every release iteration. The goal of performance and load testing at the speed of Agile is to deliver as much value to the users of an application while ensuring ultimate performance even at peak times.
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