Question
Anthem
US
Last activity: 13 Dec 2018 13:26 EST
Tools and recommendations to improve PEGA applications performance.
Hi Team,
Although the below mentioned requests sound generic,we are looking for detailed/working recommendations or tools.
Application Specs as follows: PRPC 731, Tomcat 8.x.x, Java 8 and MSSQL/Oracle.
1) Recommendations to test SOAP/TEST API's.
2) Need recommendations on testing Network and Page Latencies.
3) Services or integration tools for measuring the performance in production and proactively mitigating them.
4) Offline mode in case one of the nodes go down without asking the users to switch or logoff.
5) Making all Pega applications highly available 99.99%.
Thank you.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
For Question 1: Recommendations to test SOAP/TEST API's.
There is no out-of-the-box API test framework from Pega.
You can use any industry technology for tesing SOAP APIs such as SOAPUI, Postman.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Here are some responses
1) Recommendations to test SOAP/TEST API's
- ANS - See Mary Ann's recommendations above but there are many options in this space.
2) Need recommendations on testing Network and Page Latencies.
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For testing service or application performance, tools such as BlazeMeter (or JMeter which is the open source solution), Neoload (load testing) and many others can help in this. You can also look into vendors such as Tricentis Tosca suite of test tools that have a comprehensive approach to testing that covers much of regression testing as well as performance testing.
3) Services or integration tools for measuring the performance in production and proactively mitigating them.
Here are some responses
1) Recommendations to test SOAP/TEST API's
- ANS - See Mary Ann's recommendations above but there are many options in this space.
2) Need recommendations on testing Network and Page Latencies.
-
For testing service or application performance, tools such as BlazeMeter (or JMeter which is the open source solution), Neoload (load testing) and many others can help in this. You can also look into vendors such as Tricentis Tosca suite of test tools that have a comprehensive approach to testing that covers much of regression testing as well as performance testing.
3) Services or integration tools for measuring the performance in production and proactively mitigating them.
- Production monitoring can also be achieved through various approaches. You should first consider using Pega Predictive Diagnostic Cloud that can monitor alerts, exceptions and other metrics that matter from the application perspective. If you would like to monitor other aspects of the environment such as the app or database server and other aspects of the of the deployment stack, there are many solutions out there such as AppDynamics, DataDog, NewRelic and so on. Which one to use might depends on your particular deployment setup, for example cloud vs on prem, and other variables. Perhaps your company might already have some that is being used for other applications.
4) Offline mode in case one of the nodes go down without asking the users to switch or logoff.
5) Making all Pega applications highly available 99.99%.
- For both of these situation you should look into the high availability support we have in the platform leveraging split schema. Here is a platform high availability deployment guide for Pega Platform v8.1.
Hope that helps
Pegasystems Inc.
US
One additional recommendation I can make is to work with a Pega partner such as Valori who have expertise in developing a comprehensive testing solution for customers on Pega and they can help you with working out a good strategy for all of this.
Anamata
NL
I agree with Linoy and Mary Ann on their answers there are a lot of tools out there that can help you out with the points you mention.
At Valori we have a lot of experience with testing Pega and we have worked with these tools on numerous projects helping customers getting the feedback they need.
Which tool fits your situation best, is difficult to say based on the shared information. Maybe we can get in contact directly to get a better understanding of your situation and see if we can help you out.
Pegasystems Inc.
PL
SoapUI is great tool for testing any SOAP services and doesn't require much work to make it running.
Automatrix team is using JMeter for performance testing of mobile offline service. With Charles proxy IP set on device's WiFi we can grab all the communication requests. In JMeter we set GET/POST HTTP_Requests for login page first to fetch session cookies then grabbed service requests are performed in a loop. If request needs to be customized or responses parsed you can use JSR Processors and write groovy script for it.