Shunra Software & HP
Shunra VE Desktop used in conjunction with industry-standard HP LoadRunner enables a powerful, best-in-class solution for HP software customers using load testing tools.
Investment in pre-deployment performance testing has become a widely adopted standard used to verify the performance and reliability characteristics of core business applications. As reflected by the robust capabilities of HP LoadRunner, the proper setup and execution of a load test is a complex undertaking. Significant effort goes into each load testing project. Organizations that are disciplined enough to properly implement performance testing into their application development lifecycle have gained significant business benefits from finding issues and properly sizing capacity prior to application roll-out.
Load testing needs to take the network into account
Load testing has traditionally been focused on identification of software or hardware capacity problems, without taking into account the impact of the network on application performance. In some cases the network is not an impediment to application deployment. Unfortunately, in many cases applications fail to perform to expected levels, despite load testing prior to roll-out. This is because a load test environment that does not reflect all relevant real-world conditions cannot provide an accurate projection of how the application will perform once deployed. When this happens, the analysis and decisions leading up to approval to deploy the application may be misguided.
Increasingly, many pre-deployment testing labs have found that it is critical to incorporate the impact of WAN on application load testing and are using Shunra VE Desktop to do it -- the most interroperable solution with HP LoadRunner, and the only HP-certified WAN emulation solution on the market today.