Does Performance Testing Matter?

Posted by ImpactQA on March 1st, 2018

Did you ever come across those days when a ton of people wants something or the other from you at the same time? When your inbox goes through a massive flood of questions, requests and queries and you just freeze, stop doing everything at once? Everyone has these kinds of days every now and then, and so does your recently developed website or a software application.

Unfortunately, these circumstances can cost you big time, hurt your bottom line and bring all your hard work down within a minute. That is the reason companies rely on quality assurance testing services offered by software testing firms. Today, we are going to divert our focus towards a discussion based on the importance of performance testing and why it is necessary.

Brief Explanation Of Performance Testing
In a layman language, companies perform an array of performance tests just to reveal how a software system responds and behaves in various occasions. It may run smoothly without any hassle with 2,000 concurrent users, but what if it increases to a count of 20,000 users? In terms of improving performance, the points like High Speed, Scalability and Stability are focused to achieve.

Page Speed
Avid internet surfers expect pages to load as fast as possible, and when they don’t, the satisfactory level decreases. A recent study shows that users can actually face heightened stress levels when web pages take a long time to load. For instance, if the site is tasking too long to load and is a little glitchy in the middle of a financial transaction, customers may become agitated and lose their trust. Wondering if the payment has been done or not is obviously not a pleasant shopping experience.

Another reason why page speed should be given priority is that the godfather of every website that decides it’s fate, Google, is in favour of quicker websites. According to its algorithm that calculates the page speed for both mobile and web browsing, the faster the website, the more revenue its going to generate and the quicker it will come on top of the search results.

Stability
Without any doubt, every software company would want their application or website to work smoothly all the time. There might be some instances where your application would come under extreme stress than normal. Special days, Black Friday, for instance, is not when you would want your site to face issues and crash due to extra traffic. For well-renowned companies, a downtime even for a couple of seconds can cost them a fortune. Therefore, performance testing is very much important for any application’s or website’s stability.

Scalability
Not only is speed and stability are priority goals for performance, but various scalability tests are also highly important if you want heavy traffic on your website or more interaction of users on your application. You must ask a few questions to yourself before launching your masterpiece such as how many users does your site can support if you add another high-end CPU to the server? Will the page load slower or faster after the addition? Answers to all these questions are a must to know.

In brief, performance testing should be on top of the list for all firms, including quality assurance software testing companies before releasing their application or a website. It ought to be implemented early on the development stage so as to find more bugs earlier, solve them and heighten user satisfaction while saving you money and time down the line.