Holidays are the best time for everyone especially for the ones who love shopping. It is the best time for e-commerce companies as well, as the maximum amount of profit is made in these days only. However, with the profit, there is also maximum pressure during this period, which causes subsequent stress for the IT operations employees and the application developers.
These days when users are just ready to buy everything because of heavy discounts, there is no way you can leave your application without testing its performance for the big days. Any page response interruption that customer experiences in the app can make a huge difference in the growth and loss for the e-commerce company. A customer who doesn’t get what he needs in terms of application performance, speed, etc. will leave the application and go to another application.
An inferior shopping experience can also lead to a conflagration of negative discussion on social media, tarnishing the brand image at a critical time of year. Therefore, in order to offer your customers a seamless experience, it is essential to have a web performance testing strategy in place. A substantial part of that seamless experience is checking the response time of the application, how is it performing. If it is not performing well or it is slow, it can have an adverse effect on your brand.
Testing the Load
One of the major Web performance testing strategies is to check the load of the application. Load testing helps in depicting the amount of load an application can withstand. Load testing is performed to determine an application’s behavior under both normal and unexpected peak load conditions. It helps to recognize the maximum capacity of an application in order to validate and remove all bottlenecks.
Users understand that the performance testing piloted needs to be genuine in order to prepare for peak holiday volume. Though, typical software testing techniques may not be economical.
Not just that, but while trying to imitating peak loads, testers may get a lot of false positives. In this case, the only resolution is by conducting stress testing.
As the name suggests, it is a testing process designed to push an application to a point where it breaks. It is done to calculate the upper limit and the saturation point of the application and consecutively deal with it.
A stress test, consequently, becomes very important for e-commerce applications around big sale days and holiday seasons.
Stress testing will help the organization by unveiling the application issues that only become ostensible under extreme circumstances. Additionally, it allows testers to determine the robustness of an application and ensure that the system will fail and recover adequately.
A stress test first identifies test objectives, critical circumstances, the amount of work you want to put on, and the metrics to be traced. Once the test cases have been created, a stress testing tool is needed to emulate the essential load for each test case and then record the performance metrics.
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