Stress Testing Services
Ensure stability of your software during extreme loads with SoftTeco’s stress testing services. By conducting precisely calibrated tests, we help optimize your app’s reliability and ensure its stellar performance under any circumstances.
Stress testing in practice
Stress testing services allow businesses to assess how well their software performs under heavy, unexpected loads, and how it recovers after peak demand. Stress testing ensures that systems remain robust, stable, and responsive, both when the load is normal and when it exceeds expected volumes.
Our stress testing process
Requirements collection and analysis
Our QA engineers gather information about your system’s architecture, expected load, and performance parameters. Then we create a stress-testing strategy to identify major bottlenecks and potential risks.
Load profile creation
By identifying key transactions and defining user behavior patterns, our testers simulate how users interact with the system. We outline the future load volume, its nature (continuous or spike-like), and distribution.
Definition of metrics and test scripts
Together with your team, we define the key metrics to be measured. Custom test scripts are built to simulate the system’s most demanding conditions and push your servers, databases, and app layers to the extreme.
Test environment configuration
We configure your environment that copies production setup to simulate various load conditions. It helps us understand and measure how your system might perform under real load and find its weak points.
Running test scripts
When running stress tests, we carefully monitor the system’s performance, tracking metrics such as error rate and resource consumption. It allows us to identify when and why your system starts to fail and detect breaking points.
Result analysis
Based on the data collected during the previous stage, we create a detailed report, which contains key testing highlights, fault-prone components, and practical suggestions for improving performance.
Stress testing deliverables
Protect customer experience under load
When an app goes down during peak demand, users are left frustrated and helpless – they cannot complete their tasks/orders or reach support, and have no idea when the service will be live again.
Let’s say you’re launching a product that took a lot of time and effort to develop. You finished a brilliant marketing campaign, and thousands of excited users opened the app at the same moment, only to see a crash screen. Marketing budget, user anticipation, and brand image – all wasted in seconds. In such situations, every minute of downtime costs not only revenue but also reputation. And once the customer trust is broken, it’s very hard to earn it back.
When do you need stress testing services?
When your app is in pre-production
Test how the system will act in unplanned situations and during peak loads.
After implementing major updates
Test whether these updates/changes introduced any unexpected issues.
When migrating to a new infrastructure
Evaluate how the app acts in a new environment.
During the scaling process
Evaluate how well the system handles the growing load volume.
Software testing projects delivered
Unit and integration testing for a SaaS-based BI solution
SoftTeco conducted a thorough test for a business intelligence platform that standardizes and automates manual processes. Our team used NUnit, Jasmine, and Karma to cover unit tests, reaching 80% test coverage for common components and 60% for the remaining codebase. Simultaneous running of unit and integration testing helped us achieve the maximum level of components’ reliability.
Quality assurance for mental health assessment app
We ran manual testing for HIPAA-compliant web and mobile apps. First, our QA engineers prepared and reviewed test documentation, including test cases for data handling verification and validation. Second, we conducted functional and non-functional testing in accordance with the test artifacts. The team used Swagger and Postman to test APIs, and Datadog to monitor application logs and ensure stability and transparency across environments.
Penetration testing for AI-driven accounting platform
Our QA engineers carried out security testing for an ML-driven accounting platform. Our team was looking for SQL injection vulnerabilities, cryptographic weaknesses, and data-handling pipeline exposure points using manual and automated testing, driven by the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide and NIST 800-115 methodologies. We used OWASP ZAP, sslscan, Acunetix, and SQLMap to find security gaps and created a report highlighting potential areas for improvement.
Industry-standard stress testing tools we use
AI use in stress testing
SoftTeco integrates artificial intelligence in stress testing to accelerate the process, improve coverage, and reduce decision errors.
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Testing scenario generation from historical data
AI helps go beyond standard scenarios, creating thousands of possible test cases and simulating rare events. ML algorithms can generate 65% of test scripts without human intervention, accelerating the work.
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Automated stress simulation
AI-powered simulations can better model complex systems and scenarios, leading to more accurate, adaptable, and scalable stress testing. The model adapts scenarios and varies user behavior and request intensity according to the system’s response.
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Predictive risk analysis
AI models can build hypotheses on how a certain system would behave under stress. They estimate which systems are most likely to fail under extreme load and predict how multiple risks would interact simultaneously.
Standards our engineers adhere to
ISO25010
A software quality model standard defines what quality means in software testing. Our experts use it to define test objectives, coverage areas, build quality-based strategies, and non-functional testing frameworks.
ISO27001
An international standard for Information Security Management System identifies information security risks and implements controls to manage them. It influences security testing requirements, such as penetration testing expectations.
NIST SP 800-53
A security control catalog is used in security assurance and verification. It influences activities like configuration compliance testing, penetration testing, and security control validation testing, providing a structured set of security controls.
OWASP
Open Worldwide Application Security Project directly defines what to test, how to test, and drives security test case design. It provides realistic test scenarios and a clear list of vulnerabilities.
Why choose SoftTeco for stress testing services?
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Experience
With over 18 years of experience in the IT industry and in software testing, SoftTeco combines best practices and gained expertise to deliver unparalleled services to our clients.
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Quality
SoftTeco deploys a recognized quality management system recognized by ISO 9001 certification to ensure the highest quality of our services.
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Security
Security is the cornerstone of our stress testing services. We anonymize sensitive data, enforce strict access control, and use trusted load testing tools to keep your sensitive data safe.
Answering core questions about stress testing
Are stress testing services safe for my software?
What is the service cost structure?
How long does a typical stress testing engagement take?
Some parts of the testing procedure, such as script generation or test design, can be accelerated with AI, while others rely on human engineering. After the stress testing, reports creation, and fixes, we retest the system to verify that the system remains stable and performs correctly under extreme load.
Do we need to prepare infrastructure or test data?
Will you help fix bottlenecks after identifying them?
How much does software stress testing typically cost?
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