"The quality of the software cannot be determined with its functionality and features; there are even more additional factors to prove the software quality such as the application’s performance, reliability, response time, scalability, and stability under the workload. These factors help to engage more customers and enhance the enterprise’s productivity. And, to make all these achieved, it is important for the teams to add performance testing into their software testing list."

Performance Testing is one of the important software testing types helping to set a standard for the application’s behavior. Apps that are having good response time, stability to work alike in all workloads, assures to be reliable, etc. are always on the top of every customer’s choice. And, these can be maintained when QA teams ensure to practice performance testing.

There are many enterprises that are excelling with this practice, but there are a few who haven’t made performance testing an effective one in their software development lifecycle (SDLC). This may be because they are not aware of the importance and benefits that can be achieved with performance testing.

What is Performance Testing?

Performance testing is non-functional testing that helps to check the performance of the software. It helps to check the application’s behavior in various situations. Performance testing helps to establish scalability, stability, and speed of software application. There are different types of performance testing types and each testing type is having its unique functionality and significance.

Types of Performance testing include load testing, endurance testing, spike testing, volume testing, scalability testing, stress testing, etc. Many enterprises effectively practice performance testing before releasing the software for production. This helps to ensure that the application behaves the same as the mentioned functionalities. There are a number of reasons why enterprises plan for performing performance testing.

What are the top 5 reasons for performing Performance testing?

1. For engaging with more customers: Applications that perform slowly are not the choice of audience. This affects the app’s progress and brand reputation. However, this can be resolved by using automation tools to perform performance testing of the website. By practicing performance testing, it helps the teams validate the website’s speed, connectivity, bandwidth, and performance of the website.

2.To track the bugs related to APIs and databases: In this present era, ensuring the source data and APIs is very important. Load and Stress testing types that are part of performance testing not only help in determining the application’s behavior, they even help in validating how the server is responding for their users and further, helps in examining the APIs behavior and response under the scenarios of heavy load.

3. To enhance the code quality and app functionality: Performance testing helps to ensure that the code that is generated for the application is maintaining the quality and functionalities which the app was proposed to have. This way of ensuring the quality of the code and functionality helps to provide reliable results for the clients.

4. To improve speed, stability, and accuracy: The practice of performance testing helps to measure the most important factors such as speed, stability, and accuracy of the software, i.e. helps to validate how speed the app responds for their potential users, the apps stability under various loads, and the accuracy of providing results.

5. Assures to generate more revenue: There is no doubt that an effective performance testing strategy holds great for enterprises in generating revenue. There are many enterprises and business sectors that are gaining this huge benefit, namely banking and e-commerce applications. The easy and secure gateways enhance the visits to the application.

Conclusion:

An application is termed as successful when it functions as per its proposed requirements and ensures to satisfy its users. In order to make this assured, enterprises are required to practice performance testing before planning to release the app for the end-users. However, there are several other reasons that enhance the importance of performance testing.

About the Author:
I am a technical content writer, interested in writing articles on topics related to Information and technology. In this article, I tried to share views on performance testing and the top 5 reasons why many enterprises plan for performance testing.