System Performance
OpenCrowd's system performance services assists organizations in planning, implementing, and executing system performance tests by using open source software and open source development methodologies.
Challenges
In a typical software development lifecycle, testing for performance and scalability before deployment is typically under planned and in many case an after thought. Yet it is the most important activity as it can ensure a smoother deployment and a consistent user experience. A well executed system performance test provides insights into the scalability of the system and helps in understanding its limitation under peak loads. The information collected from a performance test can be used for capacity planning and fine tuning the application and production infrastructure.
The perceived high cost of testing tools, lack of a defined approach, and a fast approaching production deadline result in development team cutting corners. Development teams typically revert to internally developed scripts and procedures to test certain aspects of the systems. This can leave major gaps for poor performance and availability and provide a false sense of assurance before deployment.
What we offer
OpenCrowd has a seasoned team of technologists, several years of experience assisting clients in system assessment and testing, and access to a wide set of testing tools and techniques. We follow a well disciplined approach that can be applied through all phases of application development from design to rollout.
The key objective of our system performance services is to understand the limitations of the system and provide recommendations on improving application performance and production infrastructure. Supporting our testing process is our testing toolkit - a collection of robust testing tools that have widely been used by the open source community to create high quality software.
By employing our testing process and toolset, we have assisted many clients successfully launch applications and reduce the overall cost of application development. Our testing service assists clients by providing:
- Test Planning - Work with application and operations stakeholders to create a testing plan which defines the approach, amount of testing, resources needed for testing, testing environment, and when and how long testing will be conducted.
- System Assessment - Assessment of application architecture, testing environment and production infrastructure
- System Performance - Assist in creating and executing specific load and capacity testing by using OpenCrowd's test suite.
- Analysis and Recommendations - Evaluating test results to report on the application quality and provide specific feed back on application, hardware and operation procedures.
For more information on our System Performance Services, please contact our sales team.
