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Performance Testing from the Cloud

charlie — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:40:24 +0000

I’ve seen a lot of activity lately about using “the cloud” for performance testing. Here’s the current run-down of load testing options “from the cloud:” Open Source Pylot – Web Load Testing from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Grinder In The Cloud – A cloud based load testing environment Load Testing From The Cloud (JMeter) Pay to play SOASTA BrowserMob KeyNote LoadStorm It’s exciting [...]

Introduction to The Grinder

charlie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:32:11 +0000

The Grinder is: The Grinder is a JavaTM load testing framework that makes it easy to run a distributed test using many load injector machines. Until recently, I had been reluctant to investigate The Grinder because I was unfamiliar with Jython/Python, and hesitant to dig into a new language. I was wrong. Not only am I happy to [...]

Review: LoadRunner 9.0 – Don’t do it!

charlie — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:02:18 +0000

The verdict is in... LoadRunner 9.0 is a bust. Based on Mercury's track record with new releases, it isn't too surprising that the latest release of LoadRunner is buggy. What is surprising is how many steps backwards the product has gone with very few new features. The discussion board on Mercury support site is filled with accounts of crashes, hangs and failures. The experience at my company was the same: the product is just too unstable to use. I hope it is not an indicator of what to expect now that HP is running the show.

TestMaker

charlie — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:04:56 +0000

TestMaker is a framework and utility that builds intelligent test agents which implement users interactions in several environments. This program is developed in Java (so it is multi-platform) and it is available as open source.

http://www.pushtotest.com/ptt

I haven't played around with it much, but it's on my to-do list. From browsing the web site and seeing other reviews on the web, it looks like it may be worth a look as quick load test tool when you're in a pinch.

OpenSTA

charlie — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:12:47 +0000

OpenSTA http://opensta.org/ is an open source software developed in C++, and released under the GPL licence.
It is an HTTP load test application with scenario creation and monitoring, which can be
distributed on different computers.

Grinder

charlie — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:12:24 +0000

The Grinder http://grinder.sourceforge.net/

JMeter

charlie — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:11:58 +0000

JMeter http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

WebLOAD

charlie — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:11:41 +0000

WebLOAD http://www.radview.com/