How Performance Management Tools Increase QA ROI

, Managing Editor

As part of your integration stack, performance management tools are an excellent way to increase data reach and optimize staffing power in your testing runs. These tools provide critical telemetry data, enabling you to address issues faster, streamline your dev pipeline, and ensure continuous functionality. 

Integrations, like performance management tools, are critical to our new QA framework, signal-driven testing. Harnessing existing data through integrations has the power to optimize software testing by increasing available telemetry data.

Let’s explore how performance management tools can be used as a built-in listening device to accelerate the process of identifying and resolving critical issues in your app.

Project Management Tools Increase Data to Provide Telemetry

Integrating built-in monitoring devices into your software deliverables allows for more relevant data points you might not receive during the automated and manual testing phases. Traditional test runs won’t catch every single fringe case or bug that arises. Integrating project management tools and listening devices directly into your software provides real-time performance data and helps speed the CI/CD pipeline into overdrive. 

Fused testing enables continuous testing, a major accelerator of CI/CD. Here’s why that’s so important.

At Testlio, product quality issues identified by performance monitoring and crash reporting are submitted to the Testlio Platform, along with session data for issue validation and end-user impact analysis.

More data means you have more actionable information when implementing bug fixes, guaranteeing accessibility, and refining features as needed. Integrated listening devices allow you to get to the root cause of bugs and software crashes much faster, as you’ll get an initial report indicating the software isn’t working. 

These tools also allow you to see how the software performs long after testing, ensuring consistently positive user experiences throughout the software lifecycle.

Increase the Speed of Bug Fixes 

Project management tools have the added benefit of increasing the speed at which your team will complete projects and implement bug fixes. Think about it: if you constantly report on the state and functionality of your software deliverables, you have a better view of how it performs in real-world use cases. 

PM tools are just another tool in the chain to implement, which can help your team more readily get deliverables out the door. Time is money, and pushing deadlines and milestones back isn’t a great habit to get into throughout the SDLC.

Project management tools in this capacity serve as an aid for getting the project completed and out the door to your end user. You’re likely already using automated testing tools or platforms, so while it might be daunting to integrate something else into the development stack, there are undoubtedly beneficial qualities to using PM tools.

Top Performance Management Tools 

Here at Testlio, there are a few tools that our organization employs to provide the benefits above to your team. 

  • Instabug provides monitoring for mobile applications. Benefits include constant debugging, monitoring, and mobile software stability checks.
  • IBM Instana automatically maps services, infrastructure, and other inter-dependency relationships. Instana also provides constant usability metrics and real-time dependency maps.
  • LogRocket is another favorite that provides session replays, analytics, and other valuable data points for faster turnaround times when implementing fixes. 
  • Coralogix is a crucial utility that provides insights for logs, metrics, and security feedback to the development cycle. Coralogix is unique because it can apply to software aiming for compliance and has been certified in GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001/27701.

Performance management tools will positively add to any team’s development cycle. Software development is complex, but PM tools can help remove some guesswork by providing constant monitoring and metrics.