the cloud: a game-changer for web performance testing
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Today in retail, financial services, media, telecommunications and a host of other industries, more and more business is transacted through consumer web sites and mobile applications. With new channels creating spikes in traffic, highly complex system architectures, and internet-savvy customers, websites and web applications must be tested at scale to maximize business results and avoid a catastrophic crash. However, whether due to time or cost or other reasons, upwards of 90 percent of web applications are not fully tested before launching. If testing is done, many times it's with a small percent of expected traffic, which is then extrapolated for an estimation of performance. Cloud computing is changing the game for testing web applications. Cloud testing enables, for the first time, performance testing that complements the lab and accounts for the conditions in a production environment, such as traffic spikes, network latency, firewalls, and other factors. And it can be done far more affordably than traditional testing methods, as part of agile development cycles, and without an army of highly skilled performance engineers.TRANSCRIPT
The Cloud A game changer for web performance testing
Fred Beringer – VP Business Development Europe – SOASTA DATACENTRES 2011 - Nice
PERFORMANCE
matters more than ever before
Social media is highly viral and drives massive amount of
traffic.
#1
500 million active users spending 700 billion minutes per month
13 million hours uploaded in 2010
2 billion video viewed per day
106 million accounts
10 billion tweets in 2010
Your new marketing mix
Web Architecture is complex
#2
CDN Content
Switch Ad Server
Analytics
Shopping Cart CMS Content
Search Session Info
Databases
Load balancers
Media Server
Payment Server
Inside and outside the firewall
Application servers
Content is king
#3
1980
1992
1996
2011
Access devices explosion
#4
Different performance on each device
HIGHER EXPECTACTIONS
#5
of consumers say speed is more important than functionality 39%
Source: Forrester Research
Expect a web page to load in two seconds or less 47%
Source: Forrester Research
Will abandon a web page if it takes more than three seconds
to load 40%
Source: Forrester Research
Low performance and unreliability brings
MASSIVE BUSINESS IMPACT
#6
PayPal down 45 minutes in 2009 $45 Millions lost revenue
Amazon loses 1% of their sales for each 100ms of latency
Google loses 20% of search traffic every 500ms of additional latency
60% of companies admit that they do not have any performance management processes in place or what they have is ineffective.
DynaTrace study- 2009
50%
Of companies having performance management processes admit that they are doing it only in reactive way when problem occurs.
DynaTrace study- 2009
50% DynaTrace study- 2009
of application problems are found in production – when those problems have impacted end users and are most expensive to resolve.
What is required today to test effectively
performance of web applications?
SCALE #1
Real time analysis
of performance data
#2
SPEED
#3
AFFORDABILITY #4
Ready for some pain?
Traditional Performance Testing doesn’t work anymore
2006
PERFORMANCE TESTING
REVOLUTION
“ The massive resources of the cloud have changed the game for performance testing. Cloud Testing enables organizations to test their consumer facing Web and mobile applications fast, affordably and at scale. There’s now no excuse for the type of Web site disasters we’ve seen in the past that cost businesses millions in revenues and perhaps more in reputation. ”
Tom Lounibos CEO SOASTA
Cloud Testing
What does it bring us?
Affordable platform for infinite load
#1
Billions possible points of failure
The new testing challenge
Real-time analysis brings wisdom
#2
Global and realistic traffic
#3
Where is the needle?
#4
In your code
In your infrastructure
Outside your firewall
AGILE WORLD Fit for an #5
Real-time collaboration
Continuous performance testing
Cloud Testing helps companies
Cloud Testing helps American Girls
Cloud Testing helps tax payers
Cloud Testing helps phone lovers
Let’s see how this website performs!
The Cloud A game changer for web performance testing
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