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According to a survey of web application users, 86% websites are inadequate of non functional testing and also there are bugs resides in the application forever, this is been a major concern, particularly in the area of “Security and assessing peak load Performance Capacity”. The testing teams today have a much bigger challenge of anticipating the varied ways in which customers can use the systems and ensuring that the systems do behave properly when approached from a variety of ways.

There is well known interesting theory called “Rule of 8” – It specified that if the load-time of a web page exceeds eight seconds, users are unlikely to wait, or “stick around”, for its completion. So “Performance is a “must have” feature”, No matter how rich your application is functionally, if it fails to meet the performance expectations of your customer then the product will be branded a failure. Fast enough is not really enough; need to attach the security string to pull the customer confidence. Present emerging market is completely revolving with internet – Anywhere you can post your data and access your data. “How safe is the data as it navigates a complex internal and external network?” Turning all these performance and security risks into actionable results and mitigate, Testing is not solution and its not about just discovering defects, it is about de-risking delivery. It is about assessing risks as early possible in the SDLC to enable us to take appropriate actions to delivery quality on time.

Security assessment and Performance monitoring must take place throughout the entire project life cycle and need to have a new set of test process and methodology applied with right set of tools and correct blend of technical and business logic will help us to move to the next level. Web 2.0 brings in myriad ways of converting prospects to customers and providing a hassle free customer experience. SOA testing has really come up as another big thing in the world of Web 2.0. SOA will only makes sense if its tested in right way using right tools and right methodology. Today there are SOA test tools that can test the underlying interoperable components of an application without going through the front-end – not just from a functionality standpoint, but also from a Security and Performance standpoints.