Software Performance Engineering For Banks And Financial Institutions

Introduction:Testing Banking Applications require
Performance is one quality of software that canperformance-engineering services such as Load and
make or mar it. Poor performance can cause majorStress test, End-to-end Transaction Testing,
losses. Hence, performance is an integral part of theArchitecture Benchmarking, Capacity Planning,
various functions of Banks and Financial Institutions.Simulation/ Performance Prediction, Endurance
Financial Institutions invest heavily in IT products andTesting etc.
services for their better survival. PerformanceReadyTestGo's Performance Engineering Services:
Engineering reduces TCO for IT and optimizesReadyTestGo's Performance Engineering Services
application performance.offer unbiased and unlimited testing of the software,
Software Performance:besides offering anytime, over the net and lab
Software performance problems usually occur due totesting services. Our consultants possess significant
a fundamental misunderstanding of dealing withexpertise in web servers, databases, networking and
performance objectives. The idea is to tune formore. Our 20,000 sq.ft. Lab at Chennai, co-hosted at
performance after getting the functionality right.San Jose and Singapore is equipped with world-class
Performance problems are complicated and requirehardware, software and testing tools for diagnosing
extensive code changes. Systematic planning andand solving problems.
predicting the performance of the emerging softwareProcess Overview:
throughout the development process help inAny performance engineering process should ensure
managing software performance properly.repeatability, consistent delivery, complete coverage
Software Performance Engineering:and a strong feedback mechanism to leverage
Software Performance Engineering is a systematic,knowledge. Figure 1 illustrates our approach to
quantitative, software-oriented approach to manageperformance engineering.
software performance proactively. SoftwareApproach to Performance engineering:
Performance Engineering helps in recognizing problemsTo get proper utilization of Performance Engineering,
early in development and corrects them.test for common performance bottlenecks and
The three measures of performance are Speed,transactions must be conducted. Creation of
Scalability and Stability, in which discrepancies mayre-usable test scripts and tracking defects to closure
occur. Performance Engineering is all about solving aare some way to make it happen.
problem to achieve a desired and beneficial outcome.Server Testing:
The Cost of Performance Problems:Server Testing needs to monitor Web, Application
1. Ncreased hardware & development costs.and Database Servers very well.
2. Cancelled projects.Performance Test Runs:
3. Damaged customer relations.Performance Test Runs include:Baseline and
4. Lost income.Diagnostic Test Runs, and Enhancement Test.
5. Reduced competitiveness.Monitoring:
The Growth of Load Testing market:Server Side and Client Side Monitoring are crucial for
Large development and implementation costs and thefiner performance measure.
risk of losing of brand equity escalate the cost ofReporting:
application failure. According to Newport GroupTesting Banking Systems is followed by the
research, the hourly cost of downtime per millionsubmission of a test report containing ReadyTestGo's
dollars of daily-generated online business revenue canprimary client and server side observations, its
range between $9,500 and $27,500,analysis of the correlated client and server side data
Importance of Performance Engineering for Banksand it would attempt to identify any and all
and Financial Institutions:bottlenecks in the application.
The services like loan, card, insurance, ERP and manyThe graph in the following figure depicts a typical
more provided by banks and other financialclient and server side co-relation showing that the
institutions are subjected to improved Softwareweb site under test failed to scale beyond a user
Performance Engineering. Testing Banking Systemsload of around 55 concurrent users due to high CPU
help to benchmark applications for users, predict theutilization. It also shows that user processes were
application's performance, fix problems in earlythe primary contributors to the high CPU utilization
stages, enhance the speed and response time ofobserved and that CPU utilization by the Kernel and
applications, prevent customer annoyance and loss,the I/O subsystem was nominal.
and get the most cost effective investment plan.