QACenter Performance Edition

QACenter Performance Edition includes the following products: :: QALoad (load testing) :: File-AID/CS (test data management)

Application development risk has never been higher. Deployment of applications has become risky. Applications impact how internal business gets done, how customers transact and how companies care for their customers. Customer facing, distributed applications present a challenge in controlling one of the most important variables of system performance, the number of users. More components, platforms and applications than ever before are required to work together in these business systems. Finding problems late in the development cycle is costly and damaging.

Scalability

QALoad allows you to easily measure the application’s scalability and performance under unlimited traffic. You can predict an application’s response before you go live, giving you confidence to release your application into production.

Get the advantage in scalability testing, using QACenter Performance Edition to:

• emulate, from a single point, any number of users and their impact on your system
• perform large-scale tests with minimal hardware resources
• adjust volume levels through dial-up/dial-down virtual users
• create repeatable test scripts through an easy-to-use visual interface
• find and correct scalability problems early in the development process
• correlate poor response times with virtual user levels

Availability

Productivity, revenue and customers are all at stake when applications are not available; therefore you must carefully prepare your applications for production. This means testing applications and pinpointing the causes of availability problems.

QALoad, with its built-in server monitoring feature, drives business transactions while monitoring server and database components. QALoad will not only identify any unacceptable response times, it will automatically correlate them with the performance metrics gathered from the servers under test. QALoad also integrates with Application Vantage to provide transaction performance analysis of the client, network and server. You get an end-to-end understanding of the system, making it possible to quickly resolve performance and availability problems prior to production.

Identify the cause of availability problems with pinpoint accuracy using QACenter Performance Edition to:

• measure and analyze application response times and system utilization under production-like loads
• use data and reports to develop realistic service level agreements
• obtain objective data in multi-vendor environments
• apply predictable network activity and multi-protocol loads during testing
• accurately simulate user access via a modem slower than the network
• detect and replace variable test information automatically with correct data produced as the script is executed
• correlate poor response times to unacceptable server performance