Did you know that your customers network type affects not only the performance they see on your site but also affects your back end systems? We recently added Network Emulation to the SOASTA 57 Spring release. Come to this webinar to learn why and how to add this important feature to your load and performance tests to accurately model expected use of your web application. You will learn: How network type affects app and infrastructure load and performance How to model tests to match real user experience How to set up and run network emulation with CloudTest

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Tom Chavez, Product Marketing
Eric Proegler, Product Manager
Network Emulation in CloudTest
SOASTA 57 Spring Release

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• SOASTA Spring Release
• Growth of Mobile
• Network Emulation
• Demo
• Questions & Next Steps

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End-to-End Digital Performance Management Platform
Optimizing Performance Across Your Online Business

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CloudTest
• Load testing from development to production
o Continuous testing at any scale, on-prem or in the cloud
• Real-time analytics with customizable dashboards
o Safely test in production with full visibility
• Run tests live or automatically
o Full hands-on control or hands-off automation
• Full end-to-end view
o Front-end performance to back-end systems
Fast, scalable, affordable load testing for performance optimization

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SOASTA 57 Spring Release
• Version Control
o Local Git repo to manage test assets, connect to remote repo
• JMeter integration
o First class support for JMeter with CloudTest features
• Network Emulation
o Advanced modeling of various networks for load testing
• Many more features
o New home page, SLA improvements, Dynatrace integration,
Chrome extension, Jenkins plug-in, Seed data, time zones, …
New features in CloudTest

6. Growth of Mobile

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92% of US adults own a cellphone
Pew Research, August 2015

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Millennials are now
the largest generation in the US
81% primarily use mobile to shop

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The fastest growing cohort
of mobile users is aged 46-54
1 out of 4 mobile shoppers is 55+

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Mobile Traffic and Sales Continue to Grow

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Forrester, October 2015

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Comparing Network Performance

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Comparing Network Performance

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Comparing Network Performance

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Doesn’t Bandwidth Solve the Problem?

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Doesn’t Bandwidth Solve the Problem?
25x Faster Bandwidth != 25x Faster Load Time

17. Network Emulation

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Network Emulation
• Testing to match realistic situations
o Users are not all from one location on a fast network
o Packets get delayed, lost, re-ordered
• Apps perform differently as network conditions worsen
o Reduced throughput
o Timeouts occur, connections are lost
o Transactions take longer, longer sessions
Adding real network modeling to load and performance testing

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Network Emulation Terms
• Bandwidth: the bit-rate of available capacity of the network
• Upload rate: the maximum rate packets are sent from the queue
• Download rate: the maximum rate packets can be received from the queue
• Packet: a unit of data carried over a network
• Latency: the time for the packet to get from one point to another
• Jitter: a variation in the delay of received packets
• Packet loss: the percent of packets dropped from the network queue
• Corruption: the percent of packets arriving with incorrect data
• Duplicate: athe percent of packets
A short dictionary of terms

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Network Emulation in CloudTest
• More than 37 built-in network profiles
o Cable, DSL, Wifi, 4G, 3G, 2G across different locations, qualities
o Create additional profiles from existing or from scratch
• Add network emulation to any test track
o Split network types for each test
• Assign bandwidth by user or by server
o By server emulates a shared network connection, e.g. store
• Measure impact of network variability on performance
o Decreased throughput, increased wait, more errors & timeouts
Included for everyone, even CloudTest Lite (free edition)

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Sample Network Emulation Profile

22. CloudTest
Network Emulation
Demo

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Questions & Next Steps
• Additional information about CloudTest
o soasta.com/cloudtest
• Release Notes, SOASTA Community
o Network Emulation and more
• Upcoming Webinars
o soasta.com/webinars: New features,
Holiday Readiness
o Recordings of past webinars
• CloudTest on-Demand
o soasta.com/cloudtest: SOASTA will build & run tests for you
Get Started Today – Upgrade to SOASTA 57 Sprint Release

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“The leader in performance analytics.”
www.soasta.com
SOASTA

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