Mindreef Load Check
Mindreef Load Check reduces the technical complexity and the costs associated with performance and load checking; it allows project teams - developers and QA testers - to perform comprehensive load testing on Web services early and often throughout the development lifecycle
Performance testing business applications has traditionally been the domain of performance and testing experts and often occurs late in the development cycle. The tools commonly used are expensive, hardware-intensive, and complex to setup and use. The people who can make the most effective use of the technical tools are not the ones who best know the business transactions. With enough brute force effort, translation from one domain to another can happen, but only periodically and very likely not at the pace of change required in an agile organization. This contributes to the ongoing disconnect of IT from business, a challenge SOA is expected to help fix.
Without addressing common barriers to improved performance testing, services and consuming applications will fail to meet required service levels and user expectations. By aligning performance testing practices with the goals of the business, SOA projects can avoid common performance problems and realize more of their potential.
Ideally, organizations should leverage their existing project team and development/testing environment to address performance and load testing. This puts the tools in the hands of the people who can do the most good, by finding and addressing performance issues long before they are delivered to the performance testing team where they are much more difficult and costly to pinpoint. This implies a major change to the performance and load testing approach, as well as the usability and cost-effectiveness of the tools.
