An application's consistent performance and behavior is key to its acceptance by consumers. CSOFT will help you evaluate your product based on performance and how it compares with similar products already in the marketplace. Web sites and particularly e-commerce sites need to function well under high volume conditions. The cost repercussions of down time due to overloaded servers are unimaginable. In addition to stress caused crashes, research studies indicate that visitors will not tolerate UI lapses of greater than 8 seconds. Beyond that, they will click away to a rival site.

To test a mobile application performance on a handheld device, CSOFT has exiting methodology that puts the device in a variety of usage conditions. Web applications will react to large user volumes. CSOFT uses state-of-the-art software tools installed on load-generating servers to create thousands of "virtual clients". These virtual clients simulate typical frequent user activity or business processes, such as searching catalogs and filling 'shopping carts'. As the virtual clients go about their business, probing consoles record server response times. On top of this, we pepper the site with light activity in application function areas that are less frequently used. The resulting data is analyzed for system bottlenecks and to determine the corrective actions necessary to avoid server down time.

The load test exercise can be set up using either an in-lab or real-world methodology. CSOFT's laboratory method connects the load generating servers directly to the Web site servers, without intervening Internet router and switch hops, and permits test personnel to apply maximum worst case scenarios. In the lab we can also test your site using 'white-box' methods: scenarios that directly exercise components of the n-tier Web site, such as the database back-end.



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