Tag: App Performance

Avinash Tiwari | Posted on | 2 min Read

Application Performance Monitoring

What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?

 

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) involves employing various strategies and tools to ensure the efficient operation of business applications. These apps need to meet the performance, reliability, and user experience requirements set by stakeholders, such as employees, clients, and partners.

 

Mobile Application Performance Monitoring is a part of the broader term Application Performance Management, which encompasses all aspects of managing an application’s performance, while APM focuses on monitoring an application’s performance. In simple terms, monitoring is an integral part of management.

 

What is the purpose of APM?

The main goal of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is to maintain an application’s optimal performance and smooth operation. It enables linking application performance to business results, detecting and correcting mistakes before they impact end-users, and minimizing mean time to repair, aiding organizations in maintaining business continuity and enhancing customer satisfaction

 

Why is APM crucial?

 

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is important because of all the advantages it offers to a business in terms of operational effectiveness, brand recognition, and long-term cost savings.

 

By enabling front-end monitoring, managing the user experience, back-end monitoring of the services and dependencies used by the app, and infrastructure monitoring, APM offers improved collaboration and coordination in the application delivery process. This promotes seamless and transparent application delivery and the elimination of silos.

 

APM safeguards the organization’s reputation and brand image by ensuring applications are reliable and accessible. Poor application performance can lead to user dissatisfaction, lower application utilization, slower adoption, and decreased revenue. APM is essential to maintaining a good reputation and ensuring application success.

 

App Performance while conducting Manual Tests

The performance of an app can be viewed real-time while conducting functional tests. You can simply select the application installed on the device from the Tools section to view a graph of Memory and CPU usage, with the packets/bytes consumed in the Data Usage.

application performance monitoring
application performance monitoring

All information captured during a app testing session is gathered by the platform and stored in a secure location to be used later. When a tester completes his testing session using a device, the performance related information can be found in the Cloud Drive.

 

Battery Consumption

The Battery Consumption graph indicates Battery consumption by Device, Battery consumption by Application and Battery consumption in %.

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 CPU Consumption

The CPU consumption of an App is plotted as CPU consumption in percentage against Time Duration in seconds.

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Memory Consumption

The CPU consumption of an App is plotted as Memory consumption in ‘Mb’ against Time Duration in seconds.

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How pCloudy can help you?

 

Mobile application testing does not stop when all the functional tests pass. Testing the application performance monitoring is a critical step before releasing it.

 

pCloudy helps you with performance profiling of your mobile apps. You can view the CPU usage, Memory usage, Data usage and Battery consumption while performing a series of actions on the app. The Real time app performance monitoring feature helps you to keep track of the app’s performance while conducting manual tests. You can even check the performance consistency of the app by running automation test suites in parallel on multiple devices and by also simulating different network environments.

 

Shivani Sinha | Posted on | 2 min Read

Mobile App Performance Monitoring Basics to Advanced

Monitoring Mobile App Performance

 

Mobile Device App Testing
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With the myriad of apps cluttering our smartphone screens nowadays, it has become all the more important to optimize app performance. While going through your daily routine, you certainly don’t want useful apps hanging up or worse still, crashing abysmally.

 

In this post, you’ll know how app monitoring performance works so that you can get the best out of your smartphone software.

 

What is application performance management? 10 APM features that we can tick right off our fingers are:

  • Troubleshooting of disruption of frequent speed and uptime
  • Monitoring of the speed at which transactions are performed by end-users and systems
  • Use of a single integrated suite of software tools
  • Load-testing
  • Synthetic monitoring
  • Real-use monitoring
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Web-performance monitoring, to gauge app speed and uptime
  • An end-to-end overview of bottlenecks
  • Review of service interruptions

APM is integrated through the lifecycle of an application including the pre-deployment and post-deployment stages. It is therefore important for developers, testers, and business teams.
A slow load can be prevalent due to a host of issues related to APIs, servers, or browsers. APM techniques are what help pinpoint the actual problem.

 

Basic availability monitoring involves testing IP protocols and network services, but a user needs to establish some optimal performance thresholds and real-time alerts to monitor and manage both speed and reliability.

 

Tips for monitoring app performance

Tips for monitoring app performance
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Performance monitoring must take into account certain things in order to optimize user experience. These include measuring from the user’s point of view, i.e. performance, stability, and resource utilization in real time the way the user perceives them.

 

The context is crucial too. It’s important to determine how many users were affected by a slowdown, and what action on a specific operating device prompted the disruption. To truly experience a ‘mobile moment,’ you should follow these tips for monitoring your app performance:

 

Measure Frame rendering time

Only measuring network time doesn’t cut it out for users, who are interested in when the network resumes as well as when it responds.

Measuring response time by the device or operating system allows the product manager to focus on one platform at a time, respond to performance issues, and deploy resources accordingly.

 

Measure battery usage

It’s crucial to measure the battery consumption of your mobile app, along with data plan impact and memory usage. If the app is responsible for draining your battery, you should bring it in line with best practices.

Frequent updates can also be minimized so that user satisfaction can be increased.

 

Measure cell data consumption

Recent studies by Dimensional Research have shown that 20% of respondents stopped using apps that were heavy on data usage. This indicates that you should measure the consumption by app version, the total number of users, KBs of data consumed per minute, the amount of data being transferred per hit, and the percentage of data being consumed per hit.

 

Measure errors

HTTP errors from certain URLs need to be captured. This will help track the number of users who received an error, the actions that resulted in it, number of users with errors on app launch, the percentage of actions that led to at least one error, and the app version.