When web-based applications tied to mission-critical business processes fail, it turns away customers and damages the enterprise. New cloud computing solutions for testing the performance of web apps are presented in this white paper from CSC Trusted Cloud Services.

1. TODAY’S BUSINESS REQUIRES NEW TESTING METHODS
What impact does the reliability of your web KEY BENEFITS OF TRUSTED CLOUD
Trusted Cloud Web applications have on your business WEB PERFORMANCE TESTING
performance? Most enterprises rely on the
Performance Testing • Effective
web to attract, develop and sustain customer
delivers web scale testing relationships. Website performance impacts Know in real-time if your application or
and real time analytics in an revenue and company image as well as website is performing reliably and reduce
customer loyalty and satisfaction. Testing time to issue resolution. CloudTest
affordable on-demand model
web application performance has become a monitors in real time the application, the
to improve reliability of web network and the database servers.
business imperative.
applications. Interactive analysis presented during test
Today, 90% of all websites remain untested execution pinpoints issues and fault points
(Information Week) largely due to barriers across the application environment.
associated with the hardware, software and
staff previously required to implement web • Affordable
performance testing. Now, Trusted Cloud A pay-per-use, turnkey offering
Web Performance Testing allows you to dramatically reduces the costs associated
mitigate risk and improve reliability through with hardware availability, software
real world, highly scalable performance licensing and staff time required for
testing using the elasticity of the Cloud. The building and deploying large scale
pay-per-use model allows for "on-demand" performance tests.
implementation without business disruption. • Scalable
Trusted Cloud Web Performance Testing By leveraging the Cloud, web-scale testing
frees you from trying to predict how your capabilities can meet the most demanding
application will perform in critical, high- needs. The SOASTA CloudTest™
demand environments. Now you and your platform can simulate tens of thousands to
team can know that your web application or millions of users simultaneously accessing
website can readily handle expected load your site. This could leverage 100s if not
and better respond to potential peaks and 1000s of cloud servers generating load
surges in traffic. Our approach offers load from multiple worldwide locations.
and performance testing by simulating real • Agile
world users and web traffic to rapidly isolate Dramatically improve the typical
performance, latency, network, server and turnaround time associated with complex
application issues so that you can know your tests with the ability to design, schedule
site is going to perform reliably. and execute in just days.
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2. WEB PERFORMANCE TESTING
ENGAGEMENT AND DELIVERY TESTING BEHIND THE FIREWALL
Trusted Cloud Web Performance Testing AND IN THE CLOUD
includes test design, provisioning of The CloudTest™ Appliance provides self-
hardware resources, real-time analysis and a service capability for doing load and
results report. The engagement and delivery performance testing inside the firewall.
process follows the steps outlined below: Tests executed inside the firewall can be
rapidly reused to test performance to web-
1. Defining Business And Testing
scale in the Cloud.
Requirements
Kickoff engagement conducted to match FIND OUT MORE
business objective with testing CSC Trusted Cloud Web Performance
requirements. Testing is part of CSC Global Testing
Practice. To find out more visit our website:
http://www.csc.com/cloud
Or contact us, we’ll be happy to discuss your
situation in more detail and give you a live
demonstration.
2. Test Development And Setup NORTH AMERICA
CSC performance engineers create user Email aos_busdev@csc.com
scenario and test plans, including load, Call +1 800 345 7672
stress, performance testing parameters,
ramp speed and duration, among others. EMEA
Email eur_busdev@csc.com
3. The Cloud Test Call +44 (0)845 602 4204
The required load is provisioned on Cloud
Servers. CloudTest™ is pointed at the
target application and testing begins. AUSTRALIA
CloudTest™ monitors all aspects of Email talk_to_us@csc.com.au
networks, system and applications. Call +61 (0)2 9034 3000
4. Results And Analytics
CloudTest™ real time dashboards
presents live test results and analysis.
Test engineers review live data with your
team as the test is running. A written
report, including screen shots and
recommendations is presented to the
customer.
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