QACenter Performance Edition

QACenter Performance Edition includes the following products: :: QALoad (load testing) :: File-AID/CS (test data management)

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Application development risk has never been higher. Successful application deployment has become more critical to the business' bottom line, and includes making certain that all resources are being used to their optimum capacity. Your mission-critical applications impact how business is done, internally and with your customers, and must be deployed with confidence in their ability to handle the stress of peak traffic volumes without compromising end-user experience. To ensure this goal is met, comprehensive performance testing is required throughout the development process. As the components that make up the application infrastructure continue to increase in diversity, and testing budgets continue to decrease, the questions of scalability and performance become more difficult to answer. By testing performance early and often, problems can be identified and resolved before deployment, giving your applications the greatest chance for success in production.

Scalability

QALoad allows you to quickly and accurately measure an application’s scalability and performance under tightly controlled traffic volumes. You can predict an application’s response before you go live, giving you confidence to release your application into production.

Get the advantage in scalability testing--use QACenter Performance Edition to:

• realistically create any number of virtual users and simulate their impact on your system 
• perform large-scale tests with minimal hardware resources
• adjust user volume levels through dial-up/dial-down virtual users
• create repeatable test scripts through an easy-to-use visual interface
• find and correct scalability problems early and throughout the development process
• correlate poor response times with virtual user levels and infrastructure metrics to identify real and potential performance concerns.

Availability

Productivity, revenue and customers are all at stake when applications are not available. Careful preparation of your applications for production means using comprehensive testing to pinpoint the causes of availability problems before they occur.

QALoad, with its built-in server monitoring feature, drives business transactions while monitoring server and database components. QALoad not only identifies unacceptable application performance issues, it correlates them with the performance metrics gathered from servers under test. QALoad also integrates with ApplicationVantage to provide transaction performance analysis of the client, network and server. You get an end-to-end understanding of the system, making it possible to quickly resolve performance and availability problems prior to production.

Use QACenter Performance Edition to quickly identify the cause of availability problems with pinpoint accuracy:

• measure and analyze application response times and system utilization under production-like loads
• use data and reports to develop realistic service-level agreements
• obtain objective data in multi-vendor environments
• modulate network activity to accurately simulate real and what-if scenarios
• ensure realistic user activity during testing with wizard driven parameterization capabilities
• correlate poor response times to metrics reflecting server performance.

:: QACenter Performance Edition support for Citrix deployments QACenter Performance Edition provides IT organizations the ability to validate application and server performance prior to an enterprise deployment with the Citrix Access Suite. (PDF File - 519KB)