Whitepapers

Discover why IDC named SOASTA a leader in Worldwide Cloud Testing This report discusses the landscape of Worldwide Cloud Testing and Automated Software Quality (ASQ) solutions. Against a backdrop of an economy that remains volatile, enterprises are demanding efficient access to software quality and deployment to maintain their competitive edge. This report provides: In-depth vendor… Read more »

There is a strong correlation between page load time and human behavior. If users cannot engage quickly with sites and apps, their user experience suffers and they will take their business elsewhere. While the focus on the back end (server) is on stability and scalability, 80 to 90 percent of page load time is spent… Read more »

In a market where users see new updates pushed out every 48 hours, the landscape for mobile application development and testing is seeing profound change. Today, developers need a development/testing methodology that works hand-in-hand with a mobile specific infrastructure to accelerate development, improve testing coverage, and reduce costs. SOASTA responds to this new mandate in… Read more »

In this report, Aberdeen looks at how tools are evolving to make mobile applications first class APM citizens and also analyze how businesses are working to manage and improve performance for their mobile application infrastructure and look at what the most successful organizations are doing to achieve their results.

Retailers competing in the high-pressure world of ecommerce have many challenges: not only do they need to provide an interesting and compelling shopping experience; they need to make that experience fast and reliable. A company¹s online presence has become as important as a physical store, and for some the online store is their only sales… Read more »

Nearly every company involved in technology has a strategy to release apps or web sites optimized for mobile devices. The surge in mobile app development has brought a new set of challenges that engineering teams need to overcome in order to keep up with this rapid rate of growth. This white paper discusses challenges specific… Read more »

Top 10 Decision Criteria for a Web and Mobile Application Testing Platform This white paper, authored by software system performance and software testing systems thought leader Scott Barber, addresses your rights to organize and champion change within your IT or development group. Barber’s observations encourage people to see the Cloud Testing Bill of Rights as… Read more »

In today’s web environment, performance matters – a lot. And one of the best ways to ensure that your application will perform as expected, under production loads, is to do production performance testing. Testing your application in the production environment uncovers performance issues at scale that simply don’t exist in more limited lab tests. Despite… Read more »

Performance testing is often as much an art as a science. Traditionally, performance testing operates within such significant constraints that testers rely on incomplete data collected in isolated test labs, sophisticated mathematical models, past experience and gut instinct to make their predictions. This remains true even when using automated testing tools. The reality is that… Read more »

Seasonal traffic doesn’t just mean holiday traffic. For some companies, the start of the academic semester or summer holidays might trigger a traffic spike. For some, it may be a monthly or daily deal. Because you know when your seasonal peaks happen, you can plan for them. However, being prepared for seasonal traffic is not… Read more »