Atomic Talk Title: Pillars of Performance Testing – PSAR

Pillars of Performance Testing – PSAR

Performance Testing is a crucial part of every software application that we work on. We somehow, fail to realize the importance of Performance Testing & Analysis when we are testing our applications on a regular basis. So let’s understand what would happen if we fail to analyze Performance in an application.

1. The biggest impact, Customer Satisfaction. In fact, in a most recent study done it showed that a user will wait maximum of 2 seconds for a page to load. Can you believe it, 2 seconds?
2. Reputation. The slower your site or application is, the worse it impacts your reputation.
3. Reliability. If your reputation is impacted, your reliability gets directly questioned.

I think these 3 points are enough at the moment to explain how a badly performing site or application is eventually heading towards doom.

However, there is a very simple way to avoid the road to doom. All you need to do is to rate your application against the 4 pillars of Performance Testing – PSAR.

P – Performance
S – Scalability
A – Availability
R – Reliability

By measuring your application’s Performance you can analyze speed, by measuring Scalability you can ensure no downtime no matter what the load is, by making sure of 100% Availability you can ensure loyal customers returning and by being Reliable 100% of times you can ensure your reputation never takes a hit.

So, let’s have a talk about how we can move towards achieving this.

Talk Takeaways

•  Understanding downfalls of avoiding Performance Testing
  
•  Discussion about the 4 Pillars of Performance
•  Practical examples about how to go about Performance Testing (not tools)
•  Use cases & examples