Load Testing Find your systems breaking point... ...before your customers do.

Load testing complements functional testing by loading an application to look for breaking points or performance bottlenecks. It enables IT departments to measure and analyze the performance, scalability and reliability of mission critical applications.

In the real world it is vital to know how business-critical applications will perform when large numbers of users are working simultaneously. This will help to answer vital questions:

• Will your critical application place an unmanageable overload on systems resources when used en masse?

• Will your critical applications place unexpected or unnecessary load on the system when used in multiple instances?

• If your business has seasonal peaks, will your systems continue to work acceptable with the additional temporary load?

• Will the system cope with structural change?

Downtime and slow performance caused by unmanageable load will irritate users and affect productivity - but worst of all it will drive away impatient potential customers. With real bottom line implications.

Effective load testing will highlight response time and record lock issues before an application goes into production, giving you the metrics to understand how your systems and applications will perform under peak stress conditions, safeguarding your organizations' image and reducing risk.

To address these issues, Original Software has developed TestLoad. Rather than placing artificial load on the network, it simulates actual system performance, monitoring and capturing batch activity, server jobs and green-screen activity.

Discover more about TestLoad.