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Load/Performance Testing for CX
Ensure Your Customer Experience Will Perform at Peak Interaction Times
Load testing, (also called performance testing), of your customer experience (CX) offerings is key to scalability. Scalability is tied to revenue growth. Load testing determines a system’s behavior under peak load conditions and identifies capacity and bottlenecks. For example, an IVR system needs to be tested to see if it can handle call spikes when thousands of calls deluge the contact center. In an omnichannel world, web chat, email, call back, and other channels could spike at the same time, as well. You need to test and prepare for those scenarios.
Load Testing Benefits
Most of the benefits from load testing are related to scalability. Read What Is Load/Performance Testing.
- Find scalability problems quickly, without exposing them to their customers
- Test customer experience at design or emergency traffic volumes
- Test uni- or bi-directional voice quality at scale
- Scale to thousands of simultaneous calls and chat sessions
- Catch weaknesses earlier in their projects to avoid project delays
- Reduce CX flaws detected by up to 80%
Companies Need Automated Load Testing
Companies need to perform load testing all the time and need an automated solution to create and run the tests. Here are some projects that require load testing.
- Repeatable and consistent process allows testing to be scheduled at any time
- System performance baselining
- Technology refreshes
- Expansion
- Outsourcing
- Introducing new CX offerings, such as, omnichannel journeys
- Validation prior to seasonal peaks
- Change assurance
- Ongoing CX monitoring
Load Testing Customer Journeys Through a Complex System Migration – An Automotive Manufacturer Case Study
A major automotive manufacturer’s need for advanced load and performance testing grew as the technologies for delivering a seamless CX across digital and voice channels became more complex. The move to omnichannel required a sophisticated system migration to session initiation protocol (SIP).
The automotive manufacturer selected Cyara Cruncher to perform load testing. Each step of the customer journey was load tested to see if the steps met thresholds for latency, voice quality, speech recognition, and more. Load testing for IVR menu response times revealed that the design at the database level needed to be fine-tuned around query indexing. The automotive manufacturer quickly made changes, retested, and the response times passed. The company rolled out the new infrastructure to customers with confidence.
Learn about the Cyara Automated CX Assurance Platform and the Cyara Cruncher product. Read How Much Does a SEV1 Cost Your Organization? blog.
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