Testing of software including web applications can turn our to be a cumbersome task owing to the multitude of tasks that one need to undertake. To ease out the process and to be successful in these areas of business, one can frame SMART (specific, measurable, actionable, relevant and time- bound) performance evaluation parameters to be assigned practical and achievable values.KPIs in this regard can be broadly categorised under four major perspectives namely, Stress Testing, Quality, Load Testing and Structure Perspective.Stress Testing Perspective can be measured using the indicators like number of memory leakages, Bandwidth, Transactional Problem Tolerance and number of synchronization problem bearing level. This is to ensure that the load of users is within manageable levels. Quality Perspective can be obtained with KPIs 'number of virtual users', 'number of visitors who can be served concurrently', '% increase in number of users' and 'Re-work: work ratio'. Load Testing Perspective can be attained with measures like throughput level, reduction in end- user response time and dip experienced in testing and scripting duration.Structure Perspective can be had by measuring parameters such as portability index, built- in functions, number of reporting capabilities and scripting capabilities. This is to know whether the software is stuffed with enough assisting features or not.
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To successfully conduct the act of web application testing, a checklist can be prepared that has components as 'functionality testing', 'usability testing', 'interface testing', 'compatibility testing', 'performance testing' and 'security testing'.
All these proceed in a highly precise manner with the ultimate aim of making the web application a success. All these subsets talk about evaluation of different aspects of the web application, therefore a successful web application testing will aim at pulling all these aspects together and in a simultaneous manner.
Further, to enable this one requires a management tool for 'calculating the performance' of this process in a quantified way.
This in turn is feasible by using BSC (Balanced Scorecard) that has several metrics listed on it. These indicators are called KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and are used for evaluating the steps and movements in any given area.
For web application testing, user is required to spot the right factors which have an impact on the success of this field. Then, related parameters are figured out and collected under different categories. By analyzing the task in light of the values of these metrics, one can make sure that everything goes well.
This is the actual scorecard with Web Application Testing Indicators and performance indicators. The performance indicators include: stress testing perspective, number of memory leaks, bandwidth, transactional problem tolerance, number of hardware limitations and synchronization problems bearing level, load testing perspective, cut experienced in scripting time, end-user response time, % reduction in testing time, throughput level, structure perspective, number of scripting capabilities, portability index, number of built-in functions, number of reporting capabilities provided, quality perspective, number of visitors who can be served efficiently on a concurrent basis, number of virtual users who were involved in the testing, % increase in number of users, re-work: work ratio.
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