Open Load Testing - Oracle PeopleSoft Performance Optimization

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Every implementation of a packaged application is unique, with its own combination of customized business processes and infrastructure requirements. To guard against issues such as architectural interoperability, limited scalability, poor application server performance, and functional glitches, you need to thoroughly test applications prior to deployment, and continue to optimize and manage application performance in the production environment. Only then can you be assured that your PeopleSoft applications will always perform at their peak and provide users with the reliability and scalability that they expect.

Our experts have developed a complete suite of automated regression and load test tools built around PeopleSoft application requirements. To date, some of the world’s leading corporations and institutions have successfully used our automated testing solutions to deploy, upgrade, and maintain their PeopleSoft applications.

Optimizing applications for deployment readiness, system performance, and business availability are essential to ensuring PeopleSoft applications meet critical and evolving business requirements. OpenDemand for PeopleSoft provides everything you need for powerful functional testing, comprehensive load testing and performance monitoring for ensuring continuous business availability.

By simplifying the automation of requirements, planning and execution, OpenDemand's core product OpenLoad™ allows you to easily build and control a repeatable testing process to determine whether PeopleSoft applications are ready for deployment. OpenLoad quickly translates a business-process analysis into a comprehensive framework of tests for automated functional and regression tests, as well as load test scenarios without the need for complex scripting; allowing everyone within your organization to effortlessly build robust data driven scenarios in minutes. OpenLoad stores all test data in a centralized database, which it uses to query and visualize results over time. Through its open architecture, OpenLoad also seamlessly integrates with leading application lifecycle tools — from configuration management to help desk.

By capturing and replaying user interactions automatically, OpenLoad identifies defects and ensures PeopleSoft applications work flawlessly the first time. OpenLoad's script-free recording technology captures all user interactions to realistically record business processes and verify cross-application functionality. OpenLoad features full support for testing PeopleSoft Web clients, including HTML links, Java applets, and the PeopleTool application development environment. Test scenarios also can be leveraged across different browsers and platforms. This allows PeopleSoft application implementation teams to identify potential functional and performance problems prior to going live.

After the critical business processes have been verified as working correctly, the next step is to use OpenLoad for load, performance, and scalability testing. Functional and regression scenarios can be reused for load testing without modification to predict system behavior and performance. OpenLoad exercises the entire infrastructure — including Web, application and database servers. By emulating hundreds or thousands of users, OpenLoad measures the performance of business transactions and tests distributed scenarios.

OpenLoad also allows your organization to optimize PeopleSoft applications during both the pre and post production stages. You can validate the configuration of applications and quantify overall system capacity. OpenLoad contains robust reporting and analysis features that automatically flag potential problems within a PeopleSoft application environment and make appropriate recommendations on how to maximize performance. Build custom reports based on business availability, service levels, and customer impact to quantify the business impact of performance problems and effectively prioritize resolution efforts. Use OpenLoad's production application-level performance monitoring module to ensure PeopleSoft modules are continuously meeting SLAs based on the end-user perspective and provide a common tool and reporting system your IT group can use to align itself with business objectives — enabling lines of business and IT departments to gain valuable insight into the health of the IT service levels. The result is a lower total cost of ownership by eliminating unnecessary hardware and software purchases.

OpenDemand offers an integrated set of application performance testing software, services, and best practices designed for any size organization. OpenLoad's Web test tool enables you to isolate problems within the right application tier and assign the proper application specialists to resolve the problem with minimal investment. OpenLoad also offers deep diagnostics and integrated processes for PeopleSoft applications, transforming operational data into insight by delivering advanced reports and ad-hoc analysis on OpenLoad and third-party data sources.

In addition to a wide range of software purchasing options, OpenDemand offers pay-as-you-go or subscription-based testing with term licensing options for testing inside and outside the firewall; capable of simulating any number of virtual users. This is a perfect option for organizations that need to test on a short term or project basis.