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Business Benefits
Whether your organization currently uses another performance testing tool, you are looking to bring performance testing in-house (due to the cost of outsourcing), or if you are only just now looking to purchase such a tool, the business benefits of adopting StressTester™ are the same.
- Significantly Reduced Costs
- Shorter Testing Timescales
- More Realistic Testing
- Automatic Problem Identification
- No Resource Bottlenecks
- No Reliance on External Consultants
- 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 your IT team to learn from their own desk, at their own pace.
By encouraging all your testers (and why not some of your developers as well?) to follow the tutorials - which require a maximum of a couple of hours to complete - your IT projects will never again be delayed due to the fact that the one/few performance testing tool experts are unavailable..
No Reliance on External Consultants
Another benefit of StressTester™ being easy to learn and quick to use is that you will no longer need to outsource your performance testing, or contract expensive 'consultants' - who are usually really no more than very expensive tool experts.
An organization that replaced a leading alternative tool with StressTester™ no longer employees expensive tool-experts; it uses under-graduates to configure and execute performance tests.
More Realistic Testing
Have any of your systems ever crashed or performed badly even though they had been 'successfully' performance tested?
If not your own organization's systems, you will have read about famous companies whose web sites fall over even though they have supposedly been thoroughly tested.
Why does this happen?
In fact, why does it continue to happen?
Quite simply, the tests that were performed obviously did not replicate realistically how the systems would be used by real users. The reasons unrealistic testing occurs are normally to do with lack of time or the complexity of the testing tool. This inevitably results in testers 'cutting corners'.
Because StressTester™ is so much quicker to use than alternative performance testing tools (experts estimate project timescales are reduced by between 50% and 80% when compared to other leading tools), your testers will have more time to think about what constitutes a 'realistic and correct' test.
StressTester™'s powerful yet easy-to-use GUI can then be used to configure a realistic test; even the most complex of business transactions can be simulated without the need to write a single line of test script.
Therefore the results obtained from testing with StressTester™ can be trusted when making business decisions about the suitability of the application being tested.
It is no coincidence that no system tested with StressTester™ has subsequently failed when it has been released to its users. All organizations that have purchased StressTester™ are still using it today (StressTester™ never becomes 'shelf ware'!).
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 correlate the results of the test with the monitoring results, and identify any aspects of the system under test that were 'struggling' during the detected poor performance.
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 believes there is a cartel between the other enterprise performance testing tool vendors. The prices charged by these vendors usually mean that organizations do not purchase all the licenses they need, cut corners, and the result can often be system crashes in the production environment.
Reflective Solutions has therefore adopted what it believes is a fair and understandable pricing structure - we are told that typically the cost of our license is between a 5th and a 20th of the alternatives.
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.
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.