Imagine being locked out of your place of work, or your shop premises without electricity or the phones unavailable. These are not nice thoughts but now users and consumers are just a click from your competitors. You need to have the competitive advantage. We can provide you with assurances that your site will be available 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week. This is done through thorough testing of you server and site. With metrics from your existing site we can simulate heavy usage, find bottle-necks in your back end applications, through to proving scalabilty for future usage. Scenario one is a new marketing promotion. Management need to know why so much money has been spent on a site, with no increase in sales. Marketing devises a campaign to increase usage. They say that this should increase usage by 50% within 1 month with a total anticipated usage of 75% in 3 months. If your site currently handles 10,000 users a week, can it handle 18,000 in 2 months when the marketing campaign is a huge success. If your site should go down when 15,000 users, why wasn't this spotted before. Now you have a huge mess. Users become fed up with the downtimes, and slow responses. This drives users away. The total opposite of the campaign. This might sound like pie in the sky, but today's e-businesses win by being RELIABLE. This would be a scalability test.
The second scenario is where you get a lot of complaints to your support desk about the slowness of your site. If your site is slow you can be sure that users will stop complaining and move to another site. This is usually due to a bottle-neck in your site somewhere. For instance. You are selling air-line tickets on the internet. You have a nice home page for the user to interact with. They are not aware how-ever of the several layers of applications behind your reservation system. There are ORBIX connectivity components to the mainframe
for on-line reservation, there is a huge customer database running on DB2 and you have your customer loyalty system sits on a Unix sever. It was all very complicated to set-up and now you have to find a bottle-neck that is slowing down your whole process. And what is worse, when you make a modification to your systems, you'll need to test it all again.
This is where performer comes in. This is a fully automated web test tool. It is based on the premise of record once, replay as often as needed. It is fully programmable with tools for each of your testing needs. Need to test your web server. No problem. End-to-end CORBA transactions, that'll be SilkObsever. Want to simulate 4,000 user interactions an hour. With agents deployed across several this can be done from one 'controller' PC.
I think you get the bigger picture. Reliability is the key to a successful business. Just ask someone with Yahoo! or Microsoft about there problems and there affects. Actually, stop and think about your situation when this happens.
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