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Scale your Performance Testing with our nearshore talent.

Our Performance Testing services already power dozens of active engagements. We typically land our teams within 2 weeks, so you can start shipping top quality software, fast.

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Software Performance Testing Development Services We Provide

Ensure optimal software performance in various conditions. We identify bottlenecks so you can deliver a better user experience. Our performance testing services include:

Load Testing

Make sure your system can handle expected user loads with performance and load testing services. We simulate realistic user scenarios using tools like Apache JMeter and Gatling, assessing performance under various load conditions. Load testing identifies bottlenecks and allows you to optimize your application for peak performance.

Stress Testing

Evaluate system resilience and robustness under extreme conditions with stress-testing services. We subject your application to high-stress scenarios using tools like LoadRunner and Telerik Test Studio. We identify performance thresholds and ensure stability.

Endurance Testing /Soak Testing

Assess long-term system sustainability with endurance testing (soak testing). We subject your application to sustained loads over extended periods, uncovering potential performance degradation, memory leaks, and other performance-related issues.

Spike Testing

Evaluate your system’s response to sudden spikes in activity. Using tools like Apache JMeter and LoadNinja, we simulate dramatic increases in user activity, ensuring your application can handle rapid demand fluctuations without compromising performance.

Volume Testing

Validate your system's ability to handle large volumes of data with volume-testing services that simulate scenarios with high-data volumes. With tools like Apache JMeter and LoadRunner, we identify potential performance issues related to data processing and storage.

Scalability Testing

Test your application's scalability. We use tools like Locust and BlazeMeter to evaluate how well your system adapts to growing user loads and increased resource demands. Our testing ensures your application can scale with business growth.

Capacity Testing

Determining the maximum capacity your system can handle is important in understanding where you need to make changes. We assess your application's breaking point and performance limits with tools like Apache JMeter and LoadRunner, ensuring it can meet user demand without compromising speed or reliability.

Baseline Testing

Establish a performance baseline for your application. We conduct initial performance assessments using tools like Apache JMeter and NeoLoad. Baseline testing provides a reference point for future testing and allows you to monitor performance improvements.

Configuration Testing

Ensure optimal performance across different configurations. Tools like Apache JMeter and LoadRunner allow us to assess your application's behavior under varied settings. From there, we identify any configuration-specific performance issues.

Isolation Testing

Identify and resolve performance issues in isolation so they don’t impact the performance of the rest of your application. Using tools like Gatling and Apache JMeter, we isolate specific components or modules of your solutions, evaluating their performance independently so we can pinpoint and address potential bottlenecks.

Recovery Testing

Assessing system recovery capabilities after failure scenarios in a testing environment is important for building performant real-world applications. We simulate failure situations using tools like Apache JMeter and LoadRunner, ensuring your application can recover and resume normalcy without data loss or performance issues.

Key Things to Know About Performance Testing

Performance testing plays a pivotal role in software development, ensuring applications meet desired standards for speed, responsiveness, and scalability. By simulating various user scenarios, identifying bottlenecks, and analyzing system behavior, performance testing mitigates risks and enhances user experience. It's a proactive measure that helps minimize downtime and accelerate release cycles, contributing to the overall success and reliability of software applications.

Best Practices for Performance Testing in 2024

Performance testing boosts efficiency, accelerating processes, maintaining consistency, and facilitating frequent test iterations in software development. Here are the best practices we follow.

Test Planning & Design

Define clear performance objectives

Define performance objectives, outlining specific goals and expectations for system behavior under various conditions.

Identify key performance indicators (KPIs)

Determine and define KPIs relevant to the application to measure and evaluate performance.

Simulate real-world user scenarios

Create performance tests that simulate real-world user scenarios, accurately representing how users interact with the application under different conditions.

Select appropriate tools & technologies

Extend performance testing capabilities by choosing suitable tools based on project requirements, ensuring compatibility and effectiveness.

Test Execution & Monitoring

Execute tests under varied conditions

Conduct performance tests under diverse conditions, including different user loads, network speeds, and environmental factors, to assess total system behavior.

Monitor system resources continuously

Continuous performance testing requires you to monitor system resources and track key metrics to identify potential performance bottlenecks and areas for improvement.

Use automated testing for consistency

Leverage automated testing for performance consistency, enabling repeated and reliable execution of test scenarios to ensure reproducible results.

Scale tests to assess system limits

Gradually scale performance tests to assess system limits, identifying thresholds and understanding how the application performs under increasing loads.

Analysis & Optimization

Analyze test data accurately

Thoroughly analyze performance test data, using meaningful metrics to draw accurate conclusions about system behavior, performance bottlenecks, and potential optimizations.

Identify bottlenecks & potential optimizations

Identify performance bottlenecks and areas for potential optimizations, pinpointing specific components or functionalities that require attention and improvement.

Prioritize issues based on impact

Prioritize issues based on their impact on system performance and user experience, focusing on addressing critical bottlenecks first.

Implement changes & retest

Implement improvements and optimizations based on previous findings, and then retest to validate and ensure the effectiveness of changes without disruptions to other flows.

Documentation & Reporting

Document test processes & results

Document performance test processes and results, creating a reference for future testing activities and aiding in knowledge sharing within the team.

Share findings with relevant stakeholders

Share a performance test report with your findings with relevant stakeholders. Communicating performance test results helps foster transparency and collaboration.

Establish baselines for future tests

Establish performance baselines for future tests, providing a benchmark for comparison and helping track improvements or deviations in system performance over time.

Update testing strategies based on outcomes

Regularly update performance testing strategies based on outcomes, incorporating lessons learned and evolving strategies to address emerging challenges and align with changing project requirements.

100s of companies worldwide trust us for their Performance Testing services.

Why Choose BairesDev for Performance Testing Development

Why Choose BairesDev for Performance Testing Development
  • Nearshore Talent

    Our time zone-aligned performance testing experts are largely located in Latin America and share overlapping business hours with most US businesses. We can collaborate and connect during the times that work best for you.

  • Diverse Range of Solutions

    Explore a diverse range of solutions tailored to your business’ specific needs, with various engagement models to get the job done. From writing performance test scripts to carrying out a full-scale performance testing project, we can help solve your challenges and fill in the gaps.

  • Robust Security Measures

    Security is paramount in performance testing development and top of mind for our developers. Our security measures are integrated throughout the testing process, safeguarding your applications against any potential threats. 

Our process. Simple, seamless, streamlined.

Step 1Initiate discovery

During our first discussion, we'll delve into your business goals, budget, and timeline. This stage helps us gauge whether you’ll need a dedicated software development team or one of our other engagement models (staff augmentation or end-to-end software outsourcing).

Step 2Develop a strategy and build your team

We’ll formulate a detailed strategy that outlines our approach to backend development, aligned with your specific needs and chosen engagement model. Get a team of top 1% specialists working for you.

Step 3Get started

With the strategy in place and the team assembled, we'll commence work. As we navigate through the development phase, we commit to regularly updating you on the progress, keeping a close eye on vital metrics to ensure transparency and alignment with your goals.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What are software performance testing services?

Software performance testing services involve specialized procedures for assessing the responsiveness, speed, stability, scalability, and reliability of an application in different conditions. There are many different types of performance tests, such as load and stress testing. The goal is to identify performance issues and ensure that the software provides a strong user experience. 

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