Akamai CloudTest Room for Improvement

VP
Senior Manager - Performance Architect at Publicis Sapient

In terms of improvement, I think integration of these tools with the leading EPM tools would be good. It would help to seamlessly integrate to Dynatrace or AppDynamics to understand what the profiling looks like when generating a load.

CI/CD integration, the pipeline itself, still needs to be improved.

Resource consumption also needs to be worked on. When we generate a thousand or two thousand concurrent users, we need to optimize the load generator resource utilization. This is because you need multiple servers in order to generate heavy loads. Other solutions like Gatling take much lower resources compared to that by Akamai CloudTest. For instance, you would need three different instances of typical 8-core 16 GB to generate 2000 concurrent users from Akamai CloudTest, but you would need half of the capacity with Gatling. 

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RS
Director - DevOps and Infrastructure at INTIGRAL

Akamai cloud test integration into our current CI/CD pipelines (i.e.) identify and resolve the issues during the sprint phase which helps in delivering an absolute product and reduces time to market/release.

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SH
Senior Quality Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

One of the challenges with Soasta is availability and quick access to their technical support documentation and on-call support. Hence, it was a challenge to acquire knowledge during tool adoption stage. Soasta CloudTest is a cloud hosted tool, hence, initial setup would need whitelisting to access on-premise application under test. 

It's a manual process to whitelist respective internal IPs in coordination with web operations team to access Soasta. Availability of any standardized tool from Soasta will make setup process easy.

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TV
Test Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The test clip should be more user-friendly.

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it_user636321 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Analyst - Quality Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

The UI gets stuck sometimes; pulling huge load test data takes time and the UI often gets stuck.

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it_user365403 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

I couldn't say, as I haven't used it outside the training or applied it to any project yet.

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