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You know it is important for your web site to be responsive and always available. This is vital if you are, or are thinking of, driving revenue or a service on your web site. Alternatively you may have an application accessed through a browser, such as your CRM or accounting systems that are important to your business. LoadTEST Expert will help you mitigate risk in delivering your web based applications.

The cost of failure ?

The cost of web site downtime is often measured in terms of loss of revenue for the period of time the site is unavailable. But often the impact can be far reaching, damaging the credibility of a hard won brand recognition and losing a potential customer forever. LoadTEST Expert is a managed service designed to help you ensure that your web site will perform to specification and will ensure users get the browsing experience you require when you launch a new product or service.

LoadTest Expert

Common questions you might ask are:

1. Does my web site or application perform as expected and within my defined Service Level Agreements?
2. Does my web site support the number of customers I expect ?
3. Is the hardware I am planning to use sufficient to support the applications and number of users?
4. Do I have enough bandwidth ?
5. At what point will my site fail ?

LoadTEST Expert

LoadTEST Expert is a service that will give you quantitative answers to the above questions. SCL’s accredited consultants will work with you to understand your specific testing objectives related to the requirements of your business, and then develop a performance test plan. Following this plan, our consultants will write, record, and execute multiple test scripts against the application. The software technology powering the LoadTEST Expert service, will produce load testing results that accurately reflect the condition of your Web site or Intranet application. Server-side activity can be monitored in order to isolate bottlenecks in your system and validate your architecture, allowing you to deploy your Web application on schedule.

Benefits of SCL LoadTEST Expert

Fast Access to Robust Load Testing: Within a very short period our consultants will have identified traffic bottlenecks and empowered you with solutions.

Cost effectiveness: SCL can give you all the benefits of testing without the cost of buying expensive tools in-house and recruiting testing consultants. Our tests are executed across the internet. Tests from a few hundred users to the point your site breaks can be generated in a cost effective manner, in short and defined test windows that can be easily repeated.

Extensive reporting: You will receive a full-scale report on the performance of your Web application, complete with charts and graphs of all critical load scenarios so you can measure the exact capacity and scalability of your web site.

Reassurance

After the LoadTEST Expert testing engagement is complete you will have confidence in the performance, and reliability of your web site or web application Deliverables

Performance Test Plan

Our consultants will develop the objectives of the performance test in cooperation with you and your team, provide an overview of scripts and approach and clearly state all assumptions. This document serves as a guide for the whole engagement and is used as a framework for reporting the health of your web site.

Test Scripts: for key areas of the application and a scenario script simulating real-world system usage are professionally recorded and executed.

Test Setup: This verifies that the tested load can be generated accurately on the system.

Test Execution: In as little as a few hours the LoadTEST Expert service begins delivering highly accurate results. By supporting the creation and modification of diagnostic scripts “on the fly” the software we use provides a fast flexible way to test your Web applications and generate reliable results. Moreover, the tests executed during the LoadTEST Expert test windows can be saved, forming repeatable test scenarios.

Performance Report: A detailed summary of data collected from the load tests is generated.

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