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Cost of Fixing Software Defects

Posted Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:45pm by Scott Price

I love this graphic on Altom Consulting's home page that shows the relationship between when a bug is found and the cost of resolving the problem.


cost to fix software defects


Their tagline for the company that relates to this graphic: "We believe in testing as early as possible to minimize the impact and cost of fixing defects."



Web Performance Testing - Cost Benefit Analysis

Posted Tue, 10/04/2011 - 10:09am by Scott Price

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but web applications are a critical part of global business in 2011. I see no alternative other than more dependence by companies everywhere on web software and Internet infrastructure. In my opinion, all business trend data predicts greater overall web usage, more complex application architectures, and tremendous spikes in extreme traffic volumes.


Critical Applications, Yet They Aren't Getting the Investment Needed

ComputerWorld last week made a definitive statement regarding the critical nature of web applications:

Those who are unprepared are vulnerable to service outages, customer dissatisfaction and trading losses - and often when it hurts the most. Successful businesses understand the need to assure service and application availability if they want to retain customers, deliver excellent service and take maximum advantage of the opportunity their market offers.
This is not a theoretical problem - just look at the recent challenges for the London 2012 Olympics andTicketmaster. Just when everyone wants to do business with you, you’re not available.

performance testing London OlympicsThe London Olympics site was overwhelmed by high demand for tickets and many buyers received the message, “We are experiencing high demand. You will be automatically directed to the page requested as soon as it becomes available. Thank you for your patience.”

That's a failure even if the representatives of the site said it had not crashed. Performance failure...pure and simple for the whole world to see.

Examples of performance failure like this seem to occur weekly, if not daily, somewhere in the global business universe of websites.


Transformative Moment? When Global Retailers Fail!

Recently Target.com crashed under extreme user volume. They cut a deal with a designer line of knitware (Missoni) and promoted a special sale on the morning before products were sold in stores. By 8:00 a.m. EDT, the site was crashing. The Boston Globe went so far as to say:

”...the Missoni mess could be a transformative moment in the relatively brief history of e-commerce. Retail analysts say it shows that even though online shopping has made major strides since Victoria Secret’s website famously faltered during a 1999 webcast, companies still may not always have the technological muscle to meet consumer demand for such frenzied promotions.”

The Price is Right for LoadRunner?

Posted Mon, 03/29/2010 - 6:37am by Scott Price

David Makogon tweeted something interesting a couple of weeks ago. It caught my attention and seemed to be very accurate, so I re-tweeted it. His post was:

"Agreed. LoadRunner is powerful, but steep learning curve+cost. 80/20 rule: do you "really" need it?"

The Price is Right TVSo after I re-tweeted David's post, I got a response from @mtomlins that said:

"@loadstorm If you need speed, confidence, accuracy, scalability and reliability...then you need #LoadRunner and it's worth every cent"

That struck me as a haughty reply from someone that must think very highly of their own opinion.

I have no reason to argue with David's comment about learning curve and cost. It's no secret that load testers, QA professionals, and performance engineers all over the world know that LR is the most expensive solution available. Wonder why @mtomlins wanted to argue about it?

Here is the thread of Twitter exchanges that ensued (I'm @loadstorm):

loadstorm: @mtomlins so are you saying there is only one solution to get speed, confidence, accuracy, scalability, and reliability in an application?

mtomlins: @loadstorm There are perf testing tools that do a few things very well. I would argue that #LoadRunner does very many things very well.

loadstorm: @mtomlins Agreed it does many things very well. @dmakogon said so. His point was it's very expensive. What's cost for one 5,000 user test?

Expensive?...depends on the comparison. 3 years of LoadStorm costs about $35k, which isn't pocket change for most testers.

loadstorm: @mtomlins How much would 5,000 concurrent users cost for 3 years if I used LoadRunner?

So far I haven't received an answer from him. Notice how he deflected the question. I was truly curious about this guy at this point. Why would he go out of his way to try to make LoadStorm sound expensive? What motivation would he have to even be so silly as compare LoadStorm vs. LoadRunner on price?! You gotta be kidding me!

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