HPE StormRunner Load

Solution overview

Simple, smart, and scalable performance testing in the cloud for web and mobile apps

According to a recent research, application performance is the single most important attribute of the user experience.1 And the user experience is directly tied to customer loyalty and business outcomes. However, performance testing for the web and mobile apps can still be a daunting task.

How do you keep pace with ever-increasing user expectations in the face of accelerating release cycles, mushrooming IT complexity, and massive scalability requirements? Not to mention new initiatives such as digital transformation, transition to Agile methods, incorporation of Big Data and predictive analytics, and exploration of the Internet of Things (IoT).

HPE StormRunner Load provides a compelling answer. This cloud-based and software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivered solution for Agile web and mobile performance testing makes it possible to create and run a load test for internal or external applications in 10 minutes; use predictive analytics to isolate performance problems in 5 seconds; and scale to more than 1,000,000 virtual users on demand.2

Now enterprise-ready

Already known as the simple, smart, and scalable way to test web and mobile apps, HPE StormRunner Load has been enhanced with new features that significantly expand its capabilities. The latest release is truly enterprise-grade, with sophisticated cross-team project management capabilities, time-saving Docker-based load generators, advanced predictive analytics for real-time insights into performance issues, open source integration, and more.

Simply put, HPE StormRunner Load redefines modern performance testing. It not only makes it possible to meet your performance testing requirements but also to succeed with key initiatives—such as harnessing Big Data to identify and prevent performance problems, transitioning to DevOps and Agile practices, moving to hybrid deployment models, and completing your digital transformation.

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Radically improves performance testing for web and mobile apps• Simple: It is insanely easy to use,

even for non-technical staff. All you need to get started is a browser and a credit card. Provides graphical, realistic scripting, and intuitive dashboards with comprehensive real-time information.

• Smart: It uses predictive analytics for root cause analysis; also provides real-time breakdowns of transaction performance with all the details needed to fix problems.

• Scalable: Easily scales up to one million virtual users without requiring hardware; does everything automatically and quickly via the cloud. There is no need to spend time and money setting up hundreds of load generators.

• Enterprise-ready: Provides cross-team project management capabilities and supports open APIs for easier enterprise-wide integration.

Business value• Protects your brand, your company’s

reputation, and your revenue against app performance issues

• Solves performance problems quickly; makes it easy to compare service-level agreements (SLAs) with actual performance, drill down to root causes, and take remedial action

• Supports the adoption of faster, more flexible Agile/DevOps methodologies that keep the business more agile

• Accelerates and facilitates key business and technical initiatives such as digital transformation, mobility, Big Data, and IoT

1 Dimensional Research, April 2016

2 Internal HPE testing

How it works

HPE StormRunner Load is a cloud-based solution hosted and supported in HPE data center facilities. It is available immediately and delivered via SaaS licensing. You can purchase a subscription with just a credit card and scale up on demand. All you need is a browser to get started.

Using HPE StormRunner Load, performance engineers in Agile or traditional environments can create and run a load test in just minutes. The solution supports a wide array of tools and technologies including VuGen scripts, HPE TruClient, TruAPI, and open source technologies such as JMeter and Gatling. You can spin up load generators via multiple cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure, and you can see the results of your tests and gain real-time insights into performance issues instantly.

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Create and run a load test Load generators spin up Results and insights in real time

Figure 1. HPE StormRunner Load is simple to use and integrates easily with multiple tools and technologies, including open source APIs.

Core capabilities and featuresHPE StormRunner Load makes it easy to plan, run, and scale your testing for web and mobile apps by delivering the following capabilities:

Accelerates load testing in the Agile cycleWith HPE StormRunner Load, your teams can quickly develop and run tests using the ultra-simple HPE TruClient, enabling them to accelerate the velocity of your project and the quality of the released software.

Support for open APIsHPE StormRunner Load has a public REST API, making it easy to integrate to your continuous integration (CI)/continuous deployment (CD) frameworks such as Jenkins and Bamboo. HPE StormRunner Load also supports the Git version control system for managing scripts. Developers can also use open source scripting tools such as JMeter and Gatling.

Real-world testing conditionsWith the integration of HPE Network Virtualization, HPE StormRunner Load can emulate real-world network conditions. During load testing the solution can emulate multiple users and user types as well as multiple network conditions such as Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G, WAN good, WAN typical, mobile typical, mobile good, and so on.

Performance testing from a Private or Public CloudStormRunner Load allows to automatically provision on demand on-premises load generators for load tests of internal apps. It uses the Private Cloud to generate load on a secured application behind a firewall. With the support of Private Cloud, enterprise organizations no longer need to struggle with massive hardware for load generation machines. Now enterprises can easily scale as much as they need to complete their internal performance testing while saving time and reducing the total cost of testing.

Docker supportWith HPE StormRunner Load, engineers can now deploy a Docker-based load generator (LG), making it fast and easy to deploy the LG, load-test internal applications, and scale on different servers. In addition, HPE StormRunner Load users can now test Docker container-based data and monitor it via HPE SiteScope.

“HPE StormRunner Load is a flexible, cost-effective software solution that allows us to run large concurrency testing on our customer-facing web applications. Multiple cycles can be quickly ramped up for testing changes to our business websites/applications.”– IT director, small business media and entertainment company

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Real-time visibility into client and network performanceDevOps teams can see transaction performance metrics in real time and receive deep breakdowns of both client-side and network-side actions, so performance issues can be diagnosed and remediated sooner—even while the test is still running. Equally important, HPE StormRunner Load provides insights and recommendations about specific actions to take to solve performance problems.

Client-side breakdown reports give you the statistics needed to measure the quality of the user experience on your application, and network insights reports drill down into HTTP, SSL, TCP, and UDP performance metrics. You can quickly compare actual performance against SLAs, merge graphs and see correlations between actions and response times, and much more.

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Figure 2. An intuitive dashboard provides a complete, real-time network breakdown to isolate and remediate application performance issues.

Easy integration with multiple tools and technologiesIntegration with HPE Mobile Center allows you to add real devices in your load test, so you can test how your native mobile app behaves while the server is being loaded. And by integrating with HPE and non-HPE monitoring and analytics tools such as HPE SiteScope, Dynatrace, and New Relic, HPE StormRunner Load allows you to measure hundreds of metrics in each test run.

Project management and usage reportingWith the new project management and usage reporting capabilities of HPE StormRunner Load, large teams and centers of excellence (CoEs) can now use the solution across multiple projects, share licenses and hardware to reduce costs, and maximize efficiency. Teams can generate reports per project, see test results, determine future license needs, allocate licenses to specific projects, and gain deep visibility into many projects simultaneously.

Real-time anomaly detectionThe anomaly detection capability of HPE StormRunner Load enables teams to use powerful analytics to visualize and spot anomalies and performance problems, and find root causes using real-time metrics. Engineers can use these insights to speed their diagnosis and investigation into system performance, even see the precise triggers that caused the anomalies.

See it, believe itThe best way to experience how simple, smart, and scalable HPE StormRunner Load can be is to start your free trial at hpe.com/software/srl.

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