Dynamics 365 Performance Testing Tool
Executive Automats' advanced features will help you speed up performance testing even in highly customized and integrated environments.
Why you should not skip performance testing
What you gain from performance testing
When we talk about complex and extensive systems such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, performance testing allows you to solve your problems around:
Performance testing with Executive Automats
Generally speaking, performance testing is understood as a superset that covers various types of testing activities:
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Endurance testing
used to check if and how the application performs under anticipated user loads in the long time.
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Load testing
checks the system by constant and steady increase of the system load with the aim to identify the system threshold of a break
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Stress testing
checking the stability of a system by testing beyond the system bandwidth capacity. The aim is to identify how the system behaved under intense loads and how it recovers from failure.
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Spike testing
can be viewed as a subset of stress testing: it verifies how the system reacts to load spikes (sudden and large data flows resulting from users' activities).
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Scalability testing
determining the system efficiency when scaling up to cover the increase in the user load.
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Volume testing
analyzes system performance with a certain amount of data, e.g. a database or an interface size.
Rule of thumb – when should you run performance tests?
The decision when to test your Microsoft Dynamics 365 (FSCM) is strictly related to the primary goal of your testing. Mind you, setting the standard and benchmark for a given application that should be met during performance testing is a crucial task. Tests have to be performed very scrupulously so that the performance of the system is closely monitored. Having this in mind, let’s see when it’s best to run performance test:
Scenarios where you need to run performance tests:
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Before the go-live stage
Regardless of whether you are hopping onto Microsoft Dynamics 365 FSCM from an older version (AX 2009, 2012) or your company is just about to implement the system, performance testing should be considered a priority. When the system load gradually gets bigger and the number of concurrent users gets higher– as is the case before the go-live stage – the best practice is to run several user sessions in various roles and locations and check the system performance afterwards. Similarly, if your business is expanding, with every new roll-out, performance testing is recommended.
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After the go-live stage
When the system is already implemented, you still need to run performance tests, e.g whenever a system update happens. This is simply because this may have affected the critical business processes. Similarly, you would like to make sure that for any events outside of BAU (business as usual) such a Black Friday or Cyber Monday (when one observes an increase in system load) your system is bulletproof and able to perform a higher number of tasks with no risk of failure.
Performance testing – the force of numbers
With Executive Automats, you get close to real system stress simulations in minutes when executing your performance testing. Let’s look at some numbers:
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You can mimic 100’s of real users run performance tests scenarios
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Up to 100,000 – this is how many scripts we run monthly in one testing project
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3 minutes – this is an average time to create and run a simple automated test
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A FEW HOURS – time to complete from scratch a performance test project
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UNLIMITED number of robots that you can with scalable infrastructure
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Executive Automats functionalities – learn the ropes of your
regression testing
Our testing tool – Executive Automats – allows exact measurement of all important elements related to both the user experience as well as your system resources.
Invest less money and resources into performance testing with an automated testing framework that you can customize to your specific business needs:
Advanced Recorder
Executive Automats allows very practical test recordings. Contrary to other automated testing tools, with Advanced Recorder you can introduce any modifications on the fly, without the need to play back the recording for verification. This results in improved efficiency of your performance testing.
User roles
within the test platform, you are able to set up individual user environments (also virtual users’ profiles), projects and assign roles for users so that their access to certain features, scripts or projects is limited. This greatly enhances the results of performance test projects.
Process documentation creator
creating and updating business process documentation has never been easier. Every test script is based on an actual business process. That is why you can easily extract and prepare business process documentation and document your performance test runs if needed.
Full and secure integration with Azure DevOps
Executive Automats gives you a possibility to execute performance tests automatically via Azure DevOps and integrate the testing solution with other platforms via internal API. You can also create Azure DevOps Tasks in case of any test issues or based on test results for improved performance test plan management and wider test coverage. For selected performance test issues, you can set up specific e-mail notifications.
Find the bottlenecks with Executive Automats performance testing
Performance testing with the use of Executive Automats is a great helping hand for complex ERP systems (here, we are mainly talking about Microsoft Dynamics 365 FSCM). You can find the most common bottlenecks and:
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1.pinpoint places where data flow is interrupted or comes to a halt
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2.find the weakest link – a place in the system with the lowest efficiency
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3.improve the system’s performance where and when it requires the most critical actions
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4.easily plan different performance test scenarios in a limited time
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5.get exact measurements of the process (time and step)
