NCDIT's performance testing and monitoring is powered by Tricentis’s NeoLoad, which enable load, stress, scalability and peak performance testing of most mission-critical applications before deployment.

  • Performance test requirements gathering
  • Architecture review and setup server monitors
  • Load test scripting and maintenance
  • Load, stress and performance testing
  • Application bottleneck analysis
  • Threshold and capacity analysis
  • Configuration and system tuning recommendations
  • Test results and analysis reporting

NCDIT provides a shared and secured test environment, available 24/7, and consulting services in the performance testing area. The shared test infrastructure offers 24/7 accessibility to the NeoLoad Enterprise Performance Testing Environment.

Features & Benefits

Features

  • Using NeoLoad, performance testing can be performed for applications ranging from APIs and microservices to end-to-end application testing through innovative protocols and browser-based capabilities.
  • NeoLoad offers a scriptless approach to performance testing with an intuitive user interface and drag-and-drop functionality.
  • Browser-based testing supports as-code design, API testing, converting Tosca functional tests into performance tests, loops, conditions and other drag-and-drop controls, use of Javascript for advanced test cases, CI/CD integrations.
  • Supports Infrastructure monitoring, integration with JMeter and Gatling, APM integration and SLA and threshold.
  • NeoLoad can reserve resources to ensure infrastructure and virtual user (VU) availability.
  • Resource reservation
  • Version control with GIT and SVN
  • Network virtualization
  • NeoLoad offers unlimited workspaces to increase collaboration.

Benefits

  • Rapid test creation, scriptless recording and execution, enabling quicker identification and resolution of performance issues
  • Thorough performance testing across the entire application stack, leading to enhanced user experience
  • Detailed reports on various performance metrics such as response times, throughput, error rates and bottleneck identification; in-built integration with Sitescope and Dynatrace to enhance advanced reporting and analysis
  • Seamless integration with other testing tools within the Tricentis ecosystem, fostering collaboration between teams
  • Integrates with popular CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, and GitLab, enabling continuous performance testing
  • User-friendly interface with minimal coding requirements allowing wider adoption across development teams

Technical Information

  • NeoLoad is a performance testing tool that simulates traffic to test the application performance under load, stress and volume, analyzes response times, pinpoints the bottlenecks of applications and determines how many users an application can handle simultaneously and more.
  • NeoLoad has three main components: Design, runtime and results.
  • Design: It is used to create test script of the AUT, create user paths, populations and add monitors.
  • Runtime: It is used to prepare the workload model as per the given requirement.
  • Results: It provides test analysis.

NeoLoad Components

The key components of NeoLoad include:

  • NeoLoad Web – It is a centralized web-based platform to execute, schedule, review and manage performance testing results without the need for the controller. Multiple users can access and review test results simultaneously, facilitating collaboration within development teams. It easily integrates with dynamic infrastructures to enhance the overall coverage of performance testing.
  • NeoLoad Controller – It is a standalone application where performance tests are designed, validated, executed, and the results are analyzed. It is used to design, manage and orchestrate performance test scenarios, locally acting as the central hub to control Load Generators, collect test data and analyze results from performance tests on web and mobile applications.
  • NeoLoad Load Generator – It simulates user activity and monitors infrastructure behavior to help identify and eliminate bottlenecks. Different operating system browsers can be simulated using in-built device simulation (e.g., Safari browser or Chrome). Network can also be emulated based on the requirement like GPRS, 5G, wireless and many others.
  • Monitoring Agent – Comes with in-built monitoring agent, which continuously monitors the health of the servers. It also supports external monitoring agents.

Workflow

A diagram illustrating the performance testing process

 

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