Software Quality Assurance Blog

Hidden Problems That Performance Testing Can Uncover

by EDITOR on 15/12/06 at 1:26 pm

It is common for developers to rush eBusiness applications to production and forgo performance and scalability testing.  Things may run fine at first, but an increase in traffic may cause unexpected problems. 

Some real-world problems that we’ve seen at our clients include:

• Web/application server performance problems due to underestimating processor requirements.
• Performance problems due to errors implementing load balancing.
• Scalability of web and application servers, and uptime problems associated with their stability.
• Performance bottlenecks due to errors implementing middlware.
• Functionality errors in end-to-end transactions due to problems with interfaces to ERP and legacy systems.

Problems such as these can occur at any layer in the n-tier environments that today’s applications are being developed for.