StressTester™ Business Benefits
Rapid improvements in Internet and business communications' technology has led to organisations of all types and sizes developing their critical business systems using Web-based applications. Whilst this has brought a range of operational business benefits for many, it has also created new challenges to ensure that the applications scale and perform in line with the needs of the organisation. Get this wrong and the impact on the business could be catastrophic, get it right and the pay-back could be enormous.
Regardless of the size of an organisation, time and money are precious resources. StressTester™ has been designed from the outset to reduce the impact of these two factors on the application testing process. Whether it is to replace an existing testing tool, bring testing in-house or to start testing for the first time, StressTester™ can help to speed up the project development timescale and keep costs down to a minimum.
How does StressTester™ save costs?
- Shorter Testing Timescales
- No Resource Bottlenecks
- No Reliance on External Consultants
- Correct and Realistic Testing
- Automatic Problem Identification
- Superior Support
- Affordable Fair Licensing
Shorter Testing Timescales
Adopting organizations, independent experts and testing consultancies estimate that StressTester™ reduces the time required to configure, set-up and execute performance tests by between 50% and 80%.
As the Head of Performance Testing at a leading testing consultancy stated:
What takes 10 days to set-up with other [performance] testing tools requires only 2 or 3 days with StressTester™.
No Resource Bottlenecks
StressTester™ does not require test scripts to be written and therefore there are no complex scripting languages to learn.
It is possible for any IT-literate person to learn how to configure and execute realistic performance tests in just a couple of days.
The online self-training tutorials also allow IT teams to learn from their own desk, at their own pace.
By encouraging all your testers and developers to follow the tutorials - which require a maximum of a couple of hours to complete - IT projects need never again be delayed due to the non-availability of performance testing tool expertise.
No Reliance on External Consultants
Because StressTester™ has been designed to be both easy to learn and quick to use the need to employ or outsource professional performance testing consultants can be virtually eliminated from the cost equation.
A major enterprise customer who moved to using StressTester™ in place of a leading alternative tool is now able to employ under-graduates to configure and execute performance tests that used to need expensive tool expertise.
Correct and Realistic Testing
The direct and indirect costs asociated with the launch of an application that does not meet acceptable performance standards or crashes as soon as it comes under peak load conditions have been estimated to run into tens of millions of dollars. Reduced productivity, lost revenue and damaged corporate reputations can be just some of the expensive consequences for any organisation that has failed to carry out correct and realistic tests before putting an application into production.
It is a fact that applications can and do fail despite having been through apparently rigorous testing procedures. The reason for this is that the tests have not exhausted the full range of real-time user scenarios or adequately assessed the hardware and infrastructure resource requirements, which results from using inferior tools or cost cutting measures when using expensive and complex technologies.
StressTester™ has been designed to make correct and realistic testing quick, easy and simple, removing the temptation to cut corners or lower standards in order to put a tick in the Performance Tested box.
With no complex scripting needed and an intuitive Wizard based GUI it is possible to configure and execute correct and realistic tests of the application in half the time and half the cost of script-based tools and for unlimited numbers of concurrent users.
This frees up extra time for testers to ensure that every eventuality has been thoroughly tested before completing the application acceptance process.
100% Success Rate
Reflective Solutions has a proud record that no system tested with StressTester™ has subsequently failed when it has been released to its users and that All organizations that have purchased StressTester™ tell us that they are still using it today.
Automatic Problem Identification
StressTester™'s powerful resource monitoring facility allows any aspect of the system being tested to be monitored during performance tests.
When performance or scalability problems are identified, StressTester™ will automatically identify any system resouces that were 'struggling' during the test and could be causing the performance degradation..
This auto-correlation feature significantly reduces the time and effort required to diagnose performance problems, allowing solutions to be delivered in shorter timescales and reducing the delay on the project.
Superior Support
We are continually told by organizations adopting StressTester™ that our support is far superior to that provided by other tool vendors.
In fact, we have published issue resolution targets of only one hour!
This means you can be assured that testing will never be delayed because issues with the product, or questions about how it should be used in certain scenarios, are awaiting a response from a non-reactive or unhelpful support organization.
Affordable Fair Licensing
Reflective Solutions's pricing has been developed to be fair, clear and transparent. This means that our customers are able select the correct licence level they need to do the job and are not tempted to save costs or cut corners by under specifying their requirements, which can be the case when trying to understand other more complex pricing models.
The result is that StressTester™ prices provide opportunities to save between 60% and 95% of the testing tool costs compared with other enterprise class products. To see how much can be saved click here to request a Quote.
Such a price difference means that it is often possible to switch to StressTester™, gain all the benefits of doing such in terms of productivity, speed of execution and cost savings, for less than the price of renewing the support and maintenance contract of your current tool.
In fact, if you currently own licenses for an alternative performance testing tool, please contact our Sales team about our "Upgrade for Free" offer*. We will provide you with the configuration of StressTester™ that matches your current tool's configuration for less than the alternative vendor's annual support and maintenance cost!
You don't need to wait until your current support and maintenance renewal anniversary to take advantage of this offer. Start using StressTester™ now and pay for it on the anniversary date.
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Significantly Reduced Costs
Fairer licensing, no reliance on expensive tool expert 'consultants', and considerably reduced testing timescales all result in the costs associated with performance testing being significantly reduced.
One of our clients believes they have saved over $200K in their first year following adoption of StressTester™!
If you would like to understand how your organization can realise all the benefits above by the adoption of StressTester™, please contact our Sales team to discuss your requirements in further detail.