Tackle performance issues head-on and protect your availability and revenue.
Our performance engineering services support agility in the software development lifecycle, with a methodology that enables us to identify and resolve risk early.
Struggle to quantify performance and capacity parameters?
Experience poor UX and loss of business and revenue from key business services?
Encounter production incidents upon introducing new functionality, resulting in business downtime and reputational impact?
Have software inefficiencies that could result in high hosting costs?
Have troublesome and costly defect resolution processes?
Capacitas Software Performance Engineering
We combine our unique methodology with our powerful proprietary software to help you identify performance risk early through test automation – including performance testing, stress testing and load testing.
Engage Capacitas, and we’ll become part of your development process throughout the change lifecycle, ensuring your system can function smoothly no matter what’s thrown at it, without sacrificing the performance expected by your users.
Risk Modelling
To ensure effort is targeted appropriately
Profiling and Unit Testing
To ensure developers can identify hotspots
Integration Load Testing
To provide regression testing of production-like user scenarios
Design and Code Performance Reviews
To ensure performance best practice is built into your application
Early Load Testing
To quickly identify performance and load related issues, for swift resolution
Production Validation
We review observed performance to feedback into future cycles
User Experience Performance Testing
To measure the page speed as experienced by the user and provide feedback for web/mobile optimisation
How You’ll Benefit
Our Performance Engineering solutions will get your system fighting fit to handle your predicted peaks. Our team of experts will determine your current throughput limit and identify the bottlenecks creating this limit to reveal the next steps to scale upwards.
We deliver benefits in five areas:
Increased rate of business change
Reduced costs.
Increased revenue.
Improved service quality.
Reduced business risk
Results we’ve Delivered to our Clients
Scaled a system used by 10,000 crew by 260% through identification and resolution of a critical scaling defect.
Identified and resolved 3 critical system bottlenecks in an e-commerce platform, resulting in a successful peak trading period
Increased the revenue of an e-commerce platform by £12m p.a. by removing a series of critical system bottlenecks.
Shortened performance test cycle times by 58% through automation of test analysis
Reduced test tool costs by £700k by migrating to an open-source alternative
“This demonstrates the benefit of testing performance in production and using a company with a reliable performance capability. We have already engaged Capacitas to do the same on our moonpig.com platform.”
Richard Orme
Group CTO, Photobox
“Up against aggressive time scales, Capacitas worked with us to ensure our global mission critical systems continued at the expected performance level…unexpected challenges were resolved quickly.”
John Peake
Global Test Manager, RS Components
“Capacitas provided us with the information we needed to ensure that our services operated effectively during our busiest deadline.”
David White
Director of Student Systems, University of Oxford
Performance Testing Primer
Performance testing is a critical part of software development. If you want to deliver working software on time and to budget, you must understand and reduce your performance risk.
