The CloudTest Paradigm Shift

Cloud Computing has enabled a new way of testing. One that meets today’s growing web dependency and requirements for improved reliability and performance. Where testing was once considered a one time event, it has now become necessary to test website performance on an ongoing basis as user traffic continues to grow. CloudTest uniquely uses the web to test the web for the most accurate representation of real-world traffic and usage.

SOASTA CloudTest On-Demand is a turnkey solution that enables companies to quickly and affordably leverage the Cloud for load and performance testing of their websites and applications. With CloudTest, there is no need to buy software, provision hardware or train valuable resources to build and execute tests.

SOASTA CloudTest On-Demand provides the ability to simulate real-world conditions, no matter what the scale. The distributed testing architecture enables the testing of every layer of a website, Web application or service. It delivers value as the test is running through CloudTest Analytics, scales seamlessly up or down with testing needs, and does not require investment in a cost prohibitive testing infrastructure.

Web-scale Cloud Testing Service

On-Demand and Turnkey - SOASTA builds the tests, provisions the environment, generate the load and our experienced Performance Engineers work with you to analyze the results.

Global Test Cloud - Delivers an unparalleled ability to scale to 10s of millions of concurrent users from the world within minutes, testing sites in the Cloud or behind the firewall.

Cost-effective - Our pay-as-you-go service model eliminates software and hardware costs and the need to build and manage a test infrastructure.

Performance Intelligence Dashboard - SOASTA CloudTest provides you with real-time, interactive metrics and analytics of massive data sets, giving you the actionable information necessary to pinpoint and fix issues as tests are being run.

Performance Intelligence: Actionable Information for Web Application Reliability

“All we had to do was give SOASTA our URL, let them know what we wanted to test, and SOASTA took care of the rest. Within the first hour we started seeing results and were able to troubleshoot our network and application in real time. It was easy, it was affordable and it was fast.”

Osman Rashid, Chegg CEO

A unique Global Test Cloud

The Global Test Cloud enables companies of all sizes to simulate Web traffic and conditions for load and performance testing Web applications and consumer-facing websites by leveraging the elasticity and power of Cloud Computing. This platform enables cross-cloud testing from today’s leading cloud providers delivering the most comprehensive and affordable global testing solution available.

Companies concerned about variable and spiked Web traffic can easily simulate, under real-world conditions, changing volumes-whether it means millions of users in a short burst of time, or simultaneous users originating from New York, London, and Hong Kong all hitting the same application at the same time.

For many of SOASTA’s customers, the emulation of real world Web conditions from different geographies, different time zones, and at different levels of scale, has become increasingly important. Accurately measuring response time from various locations and balancing the load when using content data networks, such as Akamai or Amazon’s CloudFront, requires the generation of load to match, and often exceed, the expected activity on the site. Simulating real world traffic at scale ultimately builds confidence in performance.

A single view of production performance

Built from the ground up by the SOASTA engineering team, with over 20 years of Business Intelligence experience, CloudTest Analytics leverages SOASTA’s real-time OLAP engine to provide the actionable Performance Intelligence necessary to allow testers to drill into live data while tests are running to pinpoint performance bottlenecks and potential areas of stress in a web application.

SOASTA’s interactive dashboard displays a single, consolidated view of the important metrics impacting your website. During the test, we collect up to terabytes of monitored data in real-time, using existing monitor or our own. We dynamically isolate performance, latency, network, server and application issues, providing guidance for your team to focus on and fix problems, often on the spot.

Engagement

After a brief launch meeting to understand your performance objectives, SOASTA’s CloudTest team leverages our browser-based test application to record and build your user scenarios in a fraction of time it’s taken in the past. We then deploy the SOASTA Global Test Cloud, provisioning up to thousands of globally distributed test servers. With CloudTest On-Demand, you have the experience of the world’s foremost cloud testing experts who have run thousands of tests for enterprise-class customers. Many of our customers also leverage our virtual appliance. In addition to providing ad-hoc, on-site testing, the scenarios created for the appliance can be used as-is in the Cloud.

Pricing and availability

SOASTA CloudTest On-Demand is an hourly service that includes all test technology and cloud hardware, real time analysis, cloud computing charges and a CloudTest engineer for execution.

CloudTest sessions up to 10,000 Virtual Users start at very low cost and scale on a tiered basis according to the size of the test.

Test creation services are delivered at a low hourly rate with hours varying according to the complexity of test scenarios.

SOASTA for CloudTest On-Demand Services

SOASTA CloudTest is helping the world’s largest and most innovative companies optimize web performance, decrease development costs and provide their website visitors with a superior user

experience.

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