Imagine what if your application consumes more than the expected energy, or due to your application, the phone’s performance has nose-dived; in these situations, most likely, the user will have no choice but to uninstall the application. What is the price a business has to pay for this? According to eMarketer’s report, 90% of the time, people spend on their mobile phones using one or another kind of application. These are the apps that either provide information to the user for purchase or help them make a purchase. With that said, if someone is uninstalling your application, you are losing a growing business opportunity.
However, if your application is not performing to its true potential by doing any of the following problems mentioned above at the start of this piece, in that case, you need something different to keep things on track because app optimization goes beyond simply fixing bugs to make the app run, on the contrary, a comprehensive app optimization is elevating the UX at every step in their app journey. That’s where the Performance Engineering Framework leaves no stone unturned to improve the app interaction.
What is the Performance Engineering Framework?
Instead of performing the optimization after the development of the software, performance engineering frameworks allow performance improvements during the software development life cycle (SDLC). As a result, it is possible to conduct cost-optimized testing because by using the Performance Engineering Frameworks, instead of improving the application at the end, the process goes on continuously during the development process.
How Does Performance Engineering Framework Work?
Performance Engineering Framework works in the following ways;
1. Requirement Analysis
In an application, oftentimes, we inundate the app with multiple unnecessary details to improve the app’s performance. For example, to make the app better, you might introduce an unclear user flow. Likewise, we might not define the layouts well for the application, annoying the user. Along with this, we might not be easily assessed when multiple users interact with the app at the same time. For example, think about a banking application experiencing a concurrency bug when two users are attempting fund transfers simultaneously at a single point in time. At such times, a performance engineer will perform a requirement analysis and strike out unnecessary needs like non-functional requirements, which do not include responsiveness, security, usability, and portability. All of these can significantly impact the app’s performance.
2. Architectural Designing
A Performance engineer will perform specific tasks during the development process like load balancing, caching, data storage, and optimization for scalability and fault tolerance. All of these would significantly improve the app’s performance because the performance engineering frameworks will perform monitoring and observation so that performance management, design flows, and performance-related processes are performed well beforehand during the app development journey.
3. Performance Modelling
This is an integral part when you want to improve your application because a performance engineering framework will create a simulated model where a real-world user load, transaction volume and system interaction can be mimicked to assess the app’s performance. In this way, if an application crashes for any reason initially, system optimization can be integrated into the initial testing phase. Why? Because, in the instance of such a bottleneck in real-world use, the application can adjust accordingly and respond.
4. Performance Profiling
Performance Engineering Framework will duly take cognizance of execution time, memory usage, runtime behavior, and other relevant metrics by using a performance profiler. There are multiple profilers like cProfile, Pyflame for programming languages like Python and others. The performance engineer will use the profiler that best fits their requirement and perform the respective task of assessing the efficacy of the application using the same.
5. Testing and Validations
Now, a specific testing and validation simulation will be conducted to assess the speed, responsiveness, stability, reliability, and stability of a software app. In this testing, only the performance of the application will be evaluated during the development process and not the features.
6. Optimization Phase
In this phase, the Performance Engineering Framework will suggest the following recommendations;
- Architectural changes;
- Code refactoring;
- Adjusting configurations;
- Database tuning;
- Resource allocation (CPU, memory, disk I/O);
- Caching strategies, etc.
Based on these suggestions, the application will progress.
7. Monitoring and maintenance
Finally the last stage is to assess the high level performance of the application. Based on the same, the framework will perform the patches, updates and optimizations to help scale the application.
What Are the Benefits of This Practice?
When you are using a Performance Engineering Framework, in that case, your app development will experience the following benefits;
- You can overcome extensive work because there will not be any need to refactor the code all over again. On the contrary, through the performance engineering framework, you can improve the coding during the development phase rather than doing the same after deployment.
- Better user experience can be guaranteed because instead of the user complaining about the application and, subsequently, the application being designed in the later stages post the rollouts, this can be done well beforehand in the Performance engineering framework.
- Better trust building can happen because you will provide a better product in the initial stage of customer interaction itself, which can create goodwill for your brand. Because always it is the “first impression, which is the last impression.”
- Cost optimization is another bonus while using a performance optimization framework because instead of dumping the whole coding all over post the deployment at the end, you can improve the coding during the process of development to better your app performance.
- Your business revenue significantly improves when you have a better UI and UX.
- You can also detect performance-related issues early to prevent customer churning.
How VE3 Can Help You Set Up the Performance Engineering Framework?
VE3 has been very consistent with respect to setting up seamless processes that can amplify your app development process. For that matter, VE3’s performance engineering frameworks help in continuous optimization through advanced tools, proactive monitoring, and agile processes, addressing performance bottlenecks early so that you can save a lot of cost and make your application a product market fit at the right time. Hence amplifying your time to market and extracting maximum advantage from your app launch. Choose VE3 as your performance engineering partner. For more information visit us or contact us.
