The goal is not to just answer the question does it work, but also will it work when I need it to and as quickly as needed.

A performance testing project is one of our organisation’s primary focuses. When all the components of the system come together for the first time, even a small bottleneck in one part of your system, or a stability issue with one component can destabilise the entire system.

Automated load testing is the only way to consistently and measurably emulate thousands or tens of thousands of users simultaneously hitting your system. The risk of not doing a performance test prior to going live is that you are completely unprepared for how the system will perform in production. 

We know from our experience that most systems fail to reach even a small percentage of their concurrent user goals on first try. In fact, most of our users tell us that the first time they perform test, the system fails at even 5 to 10 concurrent users.