LISA Features: Load & Performance Testing

Powerful and flexible load and performance test management.

Using highly reusable tests, LISA Load and Performance Testing directly exercises individual components, business processes, and system-wide SOA workflows from design, through deployment. Individual functional component tests and system-wide business processes are load tested using the same environment, resulting in efficient test coverage, with rich functional and performance metrics and reports.

The Challenges of Performance Testing Distributed Applications

Load testing has evolved from a post-deployment exercise, to a vital step in the agile development process. Today's distributed enterprise applications are experiencing greater complexity and change, requiring that performance testing occur earlier in the lifecycle at the component level, and that final system testing delivers results faster across more scenarios. The traditional approach of waiting to load and performance test a finished application at the user interface level is no longer a viable option.

Benefits of LISA Load & Performance Testing

• High performance, low system overhead. Produce real condition load with incredible efficiency. Rather than buying a "test farm" of servers, reduce that cost of entry with the lean instruction set of LISA virtual users. LISA can also take advantage of available processor time on a network of computers if you need more load without more hardware.
• Supports continuous development & integration lifecycles. LISA leverages the same LISA test cases your team created for unit, functional and regression testing, and turns them into load and stress tests that can run continuously, resulting in significant productivity and test coverage ROI improvement that grows over time.
• Advanced Metrics Visibility and Alerting. Identify performance bottlenecks with advanced metrics (JMX, SNMP, LISA metrics and Windows Perfmon). Have LISA send SNMP alerts to you or your applications if any boundary, threshold or failure conditions are encountered during a test run.
• Collaborate and integrate with your application lifecycle. Share LISA test cases, individual load test runs, and complete results down to the transaction level if desired - all as simple XML files that can be easily incorporated into your issue tracking, test management, requirements management, and application lifecycle management processes.

LISA offers direct functional and performance validation of every component of distributed applications, with or without a UI present. LISA load tests also leverage the end-to-end functional tests created in LISA, invoking and verifying at every tier of the architecture, with a very low system footprint required, so capacity can be simulated at the lowest possible effort and cost.

To learn more about how LISA incorporates the 4 C's and can address critical development constraints and software reliability challenges in your organization, please contact us, or read more about LISA Virtualize, LISA Validate, LISA Test, and LISA Pathfinder.