Performance engineering is transforming the software development landscape as well as the job descriptions of all who are engaged in it. And with a greater number of roles now involved, the need for tools and technology to streamline the process is greater than ever before. Performance engineering calls for end-to-end integration and collaboration from right-to-left and left-to-right along with real-time insights and analytics. Traditional performance testing vendors aren’t adequately equipped to address this wave of chaotic change. Micro Focus though has the proven experience and technology solutions to convert the test chaos into engineered order.
Micro Focus performance engineering open architecture supports testing across any protocol and application type in any development environment. It permits stakeholders, from developers to business analysts, to use numerous vendor and open source tools so as to enable complete CI/CD integration at scale. Micro Focus tool integrations provide the ability to quickly eliminate the wait time of development and the testing that slows down application delivery. The integrations do this by enabling the rapid creation of realistic simulations of APIs, network conditions, and virtual services. Micro Focus performance engineering solutions build upon existing on-premises or cloud infrastructure and promote asset reuse to take advantage of existing investments. This helps scale quickly to meet the demands of performance testing of multiple applications across the enterprise.
Traditional performance testing did not begin until functional testing was complete and didn’t start identifying defects and root causes until the end of performance testing. Micro Focus performance engineering entails continuous end-to-end measurement and analysis of defects to pinpoint root cause in real-time even before the performance test ends. Performance criteria are included in definition and requirements of ‘done’. Micro Focus real-time analytics help the performance engineer provide feedback to the developer fast so as to initiate troubleshooting early in the development process. Synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring in production provide insights into performance issues that have escaped testing and must be fixed in the next release. Capture and analysis of end user sentiment from a performance perspective provides more specific feedback to developers so as to optimize the application for better performance.