Case Studies

Performance Testing of Legacy application

Client

Health Insurance Setup

Application

Policy Administration System

Team Size

2-3 Sr. Performance Engineers

Problem Statement

The web interface of the client's legacy application was a challenge for end users to navigate with multiple performance issues. With multiple users connecting simultaneously to the application, the performance of the app was very poor.

Challenges

Performance of the application under heavy load was very poor
Current performance was not benchmarked and established
Performance goals for critical user scenarios were not established
No monitoring tools were in place to monitor the performance of the applications and establish trends of usage
Bottlenecks, causing poor performance, were not known and addressed

Industry

HealthCare

Tech Stack

Java, hibernate technology, AS400

Resource Distribution

Offsite

What we did

CresTech took over the complete verification and validation of the EDH portal- both web based and mobile application.

All real life scenarios were identified and benchmarked for the stress limit
These real life scenarios were benchmarked for response time against varying loads including peak load
Light weight performance monitoring tools were put in place for monitoring the production environment
Profiling data was analysed and bottlenecks causing poor performance were identified
Endurance testing was performed to analyse how the application would behave under prolonged stress conditions

Duration

3 weeks

Types of Validation

Performance Benchmarking
Load Testing
Endurance Testing
Performance Monitoring

Recommendations

Performance recommendations have been given to further increase the applications capacity to handle more load
Automation of functional regression testing is in the roadmap

Outcome

Achieved a Zero ?Critical and High Defect? Release for both web based and mobile application
The performance of mobile application across devices was found to be consistent
Application remains stable and performs well during Peak times
Application has achieved 100% uptime of servers at peak loads.
Zero security related breakdown or issues have been reported so far.
With flawless User Interface, customer footfall increased by 100%