Hemalatha Murugesan - Infosys Technologies Limited.
ROI through Performance Testing
As more and more businesses are being driven by availability, applications need not only be tested to meet their functional requirements but also for their non-functional requirements, which have a significant impact on the business generated as well as on its brand value. We realize that at the time of application development, testing must be given its due importance; and more so Performance testing, which directly has a cascading risk when the application is rolled out into production
This paper briefly articulates the benefits of doing Performance testing during the application life cycle and the Return On Investments derived. Today many organizations realize the need for Performance testing just before rolling out into production. This is either due to lack of proper planning, Non-functional requirements not being captured at the relevant phase of the cycle or scientific techniques not being followed during performance testing. This results in huge changes right from the design phase and at times abandonment of projects too. This paper explains the ROI gained through a case study, some of the best practices followed and performance metrics captured to showcase the ROI.
Hemalatha Murugesan (Hema M) has over 10+ years of experience all in the area of testing and she currently heads the Enterprise Performance Testing solutions as well as Specialized Testing group at IVS, Infosys. She has also been instrumental in setting up the State-of-Art Performance Lab at Infosys. She has published papers at International testing conferences, published articles and has been instrumental in setting up the testing practices unit at Aditi Technologies and Cognizant. She holds a B.E degree from Bangalore University and her interests lie in pioneering and working in newer areas of testing.