Portal Modernization – Performance Testing

Problem Statement

• The Customer Portal is modernized with new features, reports and deployed to cloud.
• The customer base is increasing rapidly with huge usage of pdf and video reports.
• Needed to do performance testing to ensure the new application responses and scalability after moving to cloud.

CES Solution

• Combination of Load Test, Incremental Load Test, and Stress Test to simulate the current & expected future peak hours in production.
• Comparative analysis of performance results for on-premises & on Azure cloud applications (before and after modernization) for benchmarking.
• Performance metrics captured using Azure Monitor for detailed analysis.

Solution Outcome

• Detected and resolved the bottlenecks that resulted in an improvement of performance by 70% in reports.
• Resolved performance lags due to inefficient DB & Store Procedure calls, which improved the responses from ~2.8 sec to 0.3 sec (to be within SLAs) for memos.
• Performance Benchmark metrics created for future reference.
• Periodic load/stress tests for every release to ensure no new bottlenecks.