Optimize Application Performance

Application performance problems continue to occur, despite the strides companies have made with performance testing and tuning technologies. Sluggish application performance. Inability to prevent downtime. Long mean time to repair (MTTR). Excessive deployment cycles. Resource constraints. Budget overruns. Software that doesn’t meet end-user performance requirements once deployed into production. And the problems may only get worse as applications get more and more complex, as application development and QA /performance testing is outsourced, and as performance testing continues to fall off project plans.

An Efficient Performance Testing Methodology for Telecommunication Subsystems

Conference Plenary – at STeP-IN Theme conference: Performance Testing (April 2008)
Sudipta Debnath - Technical Leader,Aricent Technologies

Large telecommunication software subsystems like message routers and gateways are characterized by requirements of very high reliability, availability, large throughput, low latency and significant intermediate storage. While Moor’s law in the hardware platform has helped, software sub-systems still remain the critical bottlenecks. This further compounded by the continuous addition of newer features to legacy systems. This leads to the need for exhaustive performance testing, profiling and tuning of these mission critical components during the product lifecycle.

Experts Helping Experts: Rapid Bottleneck Identification (R.B.I.) Methodology as used in Load Testing

Conference Plenary at STeP-IN Theme conference: Test Measurements & Metrics (September 2007)
Dan Koloski - CTO and Director of Strategy, Web Business Unit, Empirix Inc.

Managed Test Services are an often-overlooked way to augment your own internal testing efforts. In addition to eliminating acquisitions of licenses and lab equipment, the personnel who staff these load tests are the “cream of the crop” in terms of performance testing skill and methodology – allowing you to focus on application tuning and environmental considerations. Empirix’s Rapid Bottleneck Identification (R.B.I.) methodology is the standard practice for Empirix’s e-LoadExpert managed load test service. In this session, we’ll walk you through the methodology and illustrate the proper qay to utilize managed services in your QA efforts through case studies and “war stories.”