From specialist bottleneck to team capability: performance testing for every team

Patrick Wolf

Senior Director Product Management at UiPath

Software can work perfectly for one user and still fail when thousands arrive at once. 

That is why performance testing matters. But for many teams, getting there has traditionally meant specialist skills, dedicated scripts, infrastructure planning, network configuration, separate logs, and dashboards that still need an expert to explain what the results mean. 

UiPath Test Cloud is changing that. 

Join us for a first look at six new Performance Testing capabilities that make it easier to prepare, run, troubleshoot, scale, and act on performance tests. 

See how teams can check whether automations are ready before a run, estimate safe load capacity from their own infrastructure, collect metrics without introducing new firewall requirements, investigate robot logs directly from the Performance Testing experience, generate load from private cloud environments, and translate performance results into decision-ready views for the people who need to act on them. 

The goal is simple: make performance testing easier for the whole testing team to own, without sacrificing the realism, scale, or governance enterprises require. 

What you’ll learn 

• How Workflow Analyzer identifies unsupported activities and version mismatches before a performance test begins, reducing avoidable failed runs. 

• How Capacity Planner uses safe dry-run probes to recommend an appropriate virtual-user capacity based on the infrastructure you actually have. 

• How firewall-safe HTTP metrics reduce network setup by using the existing outbound HTTPS path to Orchestrator. 

• How in-app robot logs help teams move from a failed run to the reason behind it without leaving the Performance Testing experience. 

• How Elastic Robot Pools enable load generation from customer-controlled Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud environments for greater deployment and compliance flexibility. 

• How persona-based performance reports turn test results into targeted guidance for Program Managers, Developers, InfraOps, and QA/Testers. 

Why this matters Performance testing cannot remain a late-stage activity owned only by specialists. 

As software delivery accelerates, teams need to understand performance risk earlier and more often, without rebuilding tests in a separate tool or creating another specialist bottleneck. UiPath Test Cloud already lets teams repurpose functional UI and API automations for realistic performance testing and brings AI-assisted planning, execution, analysis, and reporting into the same testing environment. 

These six capabilities take that model further. They remove friction before the run, during execution, and after the results arrive, making performance testing easier to start, safer to scale, and more immediately useful to the people making release decisions. 

That is another step toward a future where performance risk becomes part of the continuous quality loop, alongside functional risk, rather than a separate exercise at the end of delivery.