The core idea is simple yet effective: enjoy the power of knowing the impact every little change or new feature makes at application’s performance precisely at any time.

Through Continuous Performance Testing, you will be mainly achieving the following goals:  

1. Performance testing –finally- meets real-world business scenarios

It’s a top priority for your application release to be correlated with performance targets based in existing business needs that concern real customers. Otherwise there is no point  

2. Avoid emergency situations

Continuous Performance Testing helps you forget all about demand surge crisis as it keeps your capacity plan updated. This way you always know exactly what’s going on your production environment and there will be no bad surprises.  

3. Metrics that matter

Performance reports can be tricky since many of them don’t include the right key metrics. A well designed Continuous Performance testing strategy prevents all this non-sense by tracking the right combo of key metrics that will allow you to prepare in time.  

4. Manage performance risks

In order to successfully manage performance failures and risks, you need to have a well-developed upgrade and backup plan. Identifying load-related weaknesses and tracking SLA break points -instead of using a non-practical system which is well ahead of the demand- could be saving your day!

In the era of DevOps and continuous delivery, the old ‘waterfall’ way of doing performance testing through running big, complex tests at the end of the release cycle, find the performance bottlenecks, fix the issues and do it again, is not efficient any more.  By Integrating continuous 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.

 

• Detect hidden discrepancies before release
• Make key decisions to around the setup of the software
• Achieve real-world testing, business oriented
• Gives vital information on how the software will be able to handle scalability
• Optimize performance and tailor capacity to handle demand
• Validates system’s behavior under high volume of data, large user loads or peak load.
• Increases customer satisfaction and improves user experience
• Helps on identifying development needs and inspects quality of code
• Measures the end user response time for every transaction and user load level

 
Since, time is money and every fraction of a second matters when it comes to performance, it becomes essential for Temenos clients to address the performance challenges of their applications in the quickest possible time, making sure that Performance Testing becomes an integral part of their CI/CD pipeline.