Performance testing is vital throughout the lifestyle of any application. However, if done in the early stages of application development, it can help save organizations a significant amount of costs and efforts that may need to be put in at a later stage. Often, in the initial stages, pressures for quick deployment lead to rigorous performance testing being put off, or postponed for a later stage.
Reviewing performance of any application has to be an ongoing process, because despite rigorous testing, the real world throws up challenges that may be unusual or not understood previously. Even after different reviews and tests are conducted on particular software, assessing its efficacy in the real world can be a challenge, given network conditions and user behavior. Probably one of the biggest challenges faced by experts is accurately predicting application performance on the basis of its testing.
Not integrating product development with performance
Not many developers understand the need to integrate performance in the development and deployment plan for an application. As a result, performance testing gets jeopardized, beginning with development of the application. Also, the application may lose out on the benefits of performance testing applied in initial stages, costing the organization a lot more in poor performance or frequent performance glitches in the later stages. This can get compounded depending on which stage of its lifecycle the product is at. At post-deployment stage, the costs and efforts of fixing software issues can be high enough to cause significant damage in terms of money, and worse, user experience and loyalty.
Reviewing performance of any application has to be an ongoing process, because despite rigorous testing, the real world throws up challenges that may be unusual or not understood previously. Even after different reviews and tests are conducted on particular software, assessing its efficacy in the real world can be a challenge, given network conditions and user behavior. Probably one of the biggest challenges faced by experts is accurately predicting application performance on the basis of its testing.
Not integrating product development with performance
Not many developers understand the need to integrate performance in the development and deployment plan for an application. As a result, performance testing gets jeopardized, beginning with development of the application. Also, the application may lose out on the benefits of performance testing applied in initial stages, costing the organization a lot more in poor performance or frequent performance glitches in the later stages. This can get compounded depending on which stage of its lifecycle the product is at. At post-deployment stage, the costs and efforts of fixing software issues can be high enough to cause significant damage in terms of money, and worse, user experience and loyalty.
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