Gartner defines developer productivity insight platforms as solutions that provide software engineering leaders with data-driven visibility into the engineering team’s use of time and resources, operational effectiveness, and progress on deliverables. This enables software engineering leaders and their teams to make smarter business decisions, resulting in higher developer productivity. Developer productivity insight platforms must be capable of ingesting and analyzing the abundant data created by common engineering tools and systems. They must provide rich, tailored, and role-specific user experiences to help leaders more easily identify constraints, spot important trends, and gain contextual insights. Developer productivity insight platforms are used by software engineering leaders and their teams to better understand how software solutions are being built and delivered. Teams can more easily see where they are spending time, how they are approaching code quality (in the form of code reviews), and better understand team flow through key metrics like deployment frequency and cycle time. These platforms serve as a “single source of truth” for engineering process data, and provide a unified, comprehensive and transparent view of the engineering processes. Key engineering metrics for delivering digital products include team productivity and flow, business alignment, software quality, and operations effectiveness.
Load Testing Tools determine the performance of a system, software product, or software application under real-life based load conditions and resource utilization levels. The goal of load testing is to improve performance bottlenecks and to ensure stability and smooth functioning of software application before deployment. Through specialized testing software,various scenarios are simulated to test the system’s behavior under different load conditions. The software places a simulated “load” or demand from multiple sources on applications to ensure it remains stable during operation and peak load. It enables test analysts to evaluate application performance and maximize the operating capacity of the application.