Strategize Your Performance Testing in Cloud Environment!
As the technological advancements are leaping bound, more and more businesses are turning to cloud computing to cut down infrastructure costs and making their business more agile. This increasing adoption of cloud in mobile and website applications is demanding on businesses to implement a thorough performance testing before the application rolls out in the market.
Cloud-Based Performance Testing
Cloud based performance testing allows you to test your application across several platforms without breaking the bank. Testing teams can deploy testing scripts to pre-configured cloud-based load generators in order to reduce required resources and efforts. In addition, it helps in stimulating load tests containing numerous concurrent users from different geographies.
Performance testing in cloud is quite different to testing in non-cloud setup and right strategy is essential. Here are some types of performance tests that businesses can perform on cloud:
#Stress Test
Stress test is conducted to determine the application’s behavior beyond breaking point. Simulators are used to create intense load conditions but the cost of building such on-premise testing environment is too high. Therefore, performing stress testing in the cloud offers an affordable and scalable alternative to businesses. Extreme care should be taken while performing stress testing on the public cloud as it is shared by multiple users.
#Load Test
Testing teams must gather all the information from cloud provider on load statistics of other customers sharing the cloud. This will help them gain important insights regarding the response time while considering other applications hosted on cloud. Run multiple load tests against varying load conditions and keep track of maximum, minimum and average response time in order to get exact response time for the application.
#Test for Scalability and Elasticity
Elasticity testing is performed to determine if the application performance meets the defined SLAs (Service Level Agreement) or not and how much it is further scalable. This approach includes increasing the load to cross the threshold and check the scalability of application as per the load applied. Cloud is a pay-per-use model and therefore, implementing elasticity testing in cloud can help businesses to validate the financial invoice based upon the infrastructure consumption.
#Volume Test
Volume test is performed to test the application against the scalability of virtual environment. There are numerous memory monitoring tools which testing teams can use to monitor the virtual memory.
Rounding It Off:
Cloud has completely changed the way businesses operate. Implementing performance testing in the cloud gives businesses ease to create separate test regions and test the application’s behavior for all conditions of use. Right strategy and thoughtful planning are the utmost factors helping businesses to provide seamless end-user experience.
