Some of the load testing benefits are:
- Reduce risk of downtime
- Improve deployment quality
- Find performance bottlenecks
- Increase customer satisfaction
- Provide tangible statistics to developers
- Create system benchmarks useful throughout SDLC
- Improve scalability of your app
- Minimize risk related to performance requirements
- Reduce costs of failure
- Maximize marketing campaign funds
- Optimize hardware and software costs through accurate capacity metrics
- Reduce risk associated with SLAs
- Support continuous process improvement by supporting performance tuning
- Provides KPIs to executives for resource utilization
What others can you think of? Please feel free to comment and contribute.
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