Infrastructure Testing

 

  • Ensures system functionality and performance matches specification and requirement
  • Ensures business critical processes perform to specification
  • Reduces costs by removing system redevelopment costs at a later date
  • Proves performance and security of systems
  • Ensures outsourced vendors are delivering service level agreements that affect system performance

 

 

 

 

For many businesses the network infrastructure enables the operation of the most critical business functions. The infrastructure must deliver optimal performance, and seamless connectivity to partners, customers and suppliers to enable the business to perform.

SQS-UK Infrastructure Testing deploys different methodologies that test different aspects of the network and infrastructure and provides a concise and informative report of infrastructure readiness.

Infrastructure Testing will test the application and the software controlling the application and how they operate on the hardware that forms the network. The performance of the network running the software and the application will be tested and loads applied to stress the network. The servers and all other hardware items used on the network are tested either from inside or outside the firewall.

The security of the network is then tested at the network layer using penetration-testing techniques. The applications running on the network must then also be tested. This is undertaken using SQS-Brand Protection that remotely tests the security of the applications and outlines the severity of potential vulnerabilities.

In order to confirm that your infrastructure can support your business requirements an SQS-UK Infrastructure test will:

  • Confirm that registered customers can use the site securely
  • Test all the interfaces across the site and its components
  • Ensure that the bandwidth can support the predicted number of users
  • Ensure that the predicted level of customer growth can be supported
  • Assure that there are no performance bottlenecks in the transaction processing
  • Ensure the server configuration is capable of the required performance
  • Check that server failure results in no loss of data or availability
  • Continuously monitor performance and report if issues arise
  • Determine the reliability of the transactions and the infrastructure
  • Ensure that business continuity is preserved is case of power failure