1. LoadRunner:
Tool Overview: It is the most widely used tool to test applications, measure system behaviour and their performance under varying loads. The tool is used to simulate thousands of concurrent users and record the variations in system performance. Afterwards, leveraging those results, the performance of key components of the application can be analysed. This tool supports all advanced technologies like Ajax, Flex, HTML5.0, Java, SOAP, Citrix along with all other legacy technologies.
Tool Functionality: It supports testing of a wide range of applications along with continuous testing. The tool effectively identifies performance bottlenecks and displays the root cause analytics.
2. Apache JMeter:
Tool Overview:
It is an important open source tool used to test the performance of both static and dynamic applications. It is a Java-based application used for load and performance testing, which is used to test Web applications, SOAP & REST web services, FTP, databases and more. Interestingly,
JMeter is also widely used performance testing tool, which is effectively used to load test web and mobile applications and measure their performance.
3. WebLOAD:
Tool Overview: This is a widely used tool by enterprises for testing web and mobile applications. It is an effective tool as it combines performance, scalability, and integrity as a single process for testing applications. It is an alternate to LoadRunner.
Tool Functionality: This tool is used to create mobile load tests either by recording native mobile apps or browser-based apps, directly from the mobile handset. The ease of the tool is; the user can edit any scripts, add parameters and perform validation checks. After creating mobile scripts, it executes the mobile load tests and this tool integrates with a real mobile device.
4. LoadView:
Tool Overview: It is used for cloud-based load testing and empowers DevOps teams to efficiently test websites, web-apps, and application programming interfaces (API’s) with thousands of concurrent users. The agile and DevOps teams can test their website’s UX under load, verify performance and identify various bottlenecks within applications. This tool simulates API calls, validates API responses and verifies the most important SLA requirements.
Tool Functionality: LoadView uses the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to generate concurrent users load over the cloud during the load tests. The agile teams can test most complex applications by designing multiple test scenarios to test for.
This tool tests and determines if the website (under testing) can handle spikes in traffic by generating load with a set number of concurrent users. Also, it tests the limits of infrastructure, every time by adjusting the load in real time. The test results can be seen in LoadView’s web interface and reports can be obtained either in CSV or PDF formats.
5. LoadUI Pro:
Tool Overview: This tool is used for load testing REST, SOAP API’s, databases and microservices. The simplicity of this tool is, it does not require a specific skill set in load testing and any user can create and execute tests. It is used to guide in building realistic performance test scenarios.
Tool Functionality: With LoadUI PRO, there is a flexibility to reuse all functional API tests built on the industry’s best open source tools. It helps to reduce the time taken to deploy REST and SOAP web services. It provides key insights that help to fix any performance bottlenecks. Its powerful and intuitive capabilities help to deliver scalable API’s.
This tool is used to test the speed and scalability of new changes to the APIs in a short span of time. Users can gain insights from real-time API load tests and ensure that the API will handle any demand effectively.
6. VSTS:
Tool Overview: VSTS stands for Visual Studio Team Services; is an extension of Microsoft Visual Studio. It is an integrated development environment (IDE) and is usually run in the cloud (Azure). The tool is used to load test mobile applications or website’s performance before their launch to check any performance bottlenecks even before it reaches the customers.
Tool Functionality: This tool is used to run URL-based load tests with Azure DevOps and sets all the required parameters to run the test. When the test is completed, the results display the overall application performance in a separate summary page. This page displays important metrics such as average response time, user load, requests per second, failed requests, other intervening errors along with test usage. Response time pinpoints the time an application has taken to respond to requests which are the key metrics for measuring any app’s performance.
7. CloudTest:
Tool Overview: This tool helps to stress test environment to ensure the website or an application is stable even under the spikes or in heavy traffic. It generates actionable insights that help dive into the live data and effectively know any performance issues while load testing is in progress. It enables continuous testing in the cloud (anytime without worrying about any hardware), eliminates traditional costs and gives more value to it.
Tool Functionality: This tool is a useful global load testing platform that is scalable and used to run tests to receive actionable insights from the results.
Courtesy by : Testingxperts
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Interesting list, Alisha. Thanks for sharing! The right mix of tools and best practices is necessary to ensure optimal performance of an application. Here is a list of best practices for performance testing - cigniti.com/blog/software-performa...