Web Based Testing
As organisations rely more heavily on the web-based delivery of business critical systems, the importance of ensuring that these systems are always operating at optimum performance levels increases. When these systems are unavailable or slow, businesses lose revenue, data, credibility and customers.
To be certain that systems are secure, can operate at peak levels and will scale to meet increasing levels of demand is in itself becoming a mission critical requirement for organisations.
Continuous testing of these web-based services has therefore become an increasingly important element in ensuring continued availability.
Elements of web based testing are familiar as they have been common practice for some time. Measurement and testing of business transactions and security of web-based applications is a growing requirement that cannot be easily satisfied without deploying offerings from many sources. This increases the problem of monitoring the delivery of service Level Agreements and of interpreting results presented in many dissimilar styles and with different content.
SQS-UK offers a single source for Web Based Testing providing consistent reporting of problems, advice on implementing solutions and improving performance and availability.
Monitoring and Availability Services
Web Perspective
- Business edition for single page monitoring service which provides availability and page performance metrics for a single URL. Based upon high speed and DSL line
- Consumer edition for Single page monitoring service that provides availability and page performance metrics for a single URL. Service metrics are based upon a 56K line
- Wireless for Single page or transaction service that provides WAP monitoring service from wireless devices
- Application for monitoring a business transaction (eg. Buying a product on the web) and provides metrics on each page through the transaction
- Streaming for monitoring the availability of a streaming audio/video service. Measures redirection time, initial buffer time and provides steady state playback statistics
Brand Protection application Vulnerability Assesment
- identifies weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the application which intruders can use to break or breach the web application and/or infrastructure. Highlights potential application development flaws across 11 different dimensions
Performance and Integrity Testing Solutions
- Web Integrity scans all web pages within a URL to test for HTML compliance (eg W3C), optimises images (e.g. for download speed), identifies broken links on site, and has spell checking capabilities. Can also test for consistency across multiple corporate websites for use of phrasing, consistent graphics usage
- Test Perspective provides a way to record processes and transactions "On the fly." Once the transactions are recorded, the processes can be run to test each process for its performance and availability. In addition, these tests will allow up to 100 virtual users to be tested against each process to identify any load or stress on the transaction
- Performance Testing and Tuning uses market-leading automation
tools that are either service-based or software packages.
We work with the client to identify the key business processes
(normally 4-7). Team designs the key scripts, executes the
scripts, and diagnoses the results to identify key performance
bottlenecks and capacity limits and then provide tuning
solutions to improve performance
