In order to maintain applications which are suitable for large number of requests, it is important to make that specific application undergo load testing.
Load testing helps in writing, running and defining the test scenarios. A test scenario can either be a web application or a script that can be used in the stimulation of a typical behavior of the user in multiple pages. Once the test scenario is defined, you can execute it and determine how your application works.
There are many load testing tools out there that can be used in building, conducting and analyzing the stress and load tests for different web applications and services. While using these tools, many of them requires you to create a test scenario beforehand and when the scenario is performed on the website or application it helps in the stimulation of many virtual users as well.
Some of the famous load testing tools is:
1. Tsung:
It is a multi protocol load testing tool.
Purpose:
The purpose of this open source load testing tool is to test the performance of services and scalability b stimulating the users.
Applications:
HTTP servers and other services.
- Locust:
It is a load testing tool for websites, web-based services and web applications.
Purpose:
Locust is a scalable and distributed load testing tool and helps you to write test scenarios in Python, plus it comes with web-based user interface.
- JMeter:
JMeter is used as performance and load testing tool.
Applications:
It is an open source Java-based tool used to test web applications and services. It also assists you in testing services like databases, mail services and LDAP.
- LoadUI
LoadUI exists in both open source and commercial editions.
Purpose:
It is cross-platform stress testing tool and lets you configure, create and redistribute the load tests in real time. You can learn more about how this works on LoadTesting.co.
- Loadster:
Loadster comprises of two parts:
- An engine for running and distributing the load tests.
- A tool which is used for building and testing the test scenarios.
Applications:
It is used for testing high performance web applications.
- WAPT:
WAPT alongside being a load testing tool also helps you in building, generating and monitoring load tests by using graphical user interface.
One thing that separates WAPT from other load generating tools is that it does not let you limit the virtual users you use while performing load testing.
- ApacheBench:
ApacheBench is used to tell you how many requests per second your web server is able to serve. It also tells you how your web server installation should perform.
Purpose:
It is used for benchmarking web applications and APIs and is able of serving as well.
- Webserver Stress Tool:
Webserver stress tool comes with a graphical user interface in order to help you in analyzing and running your load tests.
Purpose:
This tool is able to produce a variety of different tests in order to verify your web services and applications.
If you are not interested in building your own infrastructure, there are many load testing services out there, which are able to help you in setting up large scale load tests. For more information on web hosting services and how they impact load testing, check out WebHostingProf.com.
These tool services help you in conducting time to time tests.
LOAD TESTING CLOUD SERVICES:
- BlazeMeter
- Type: APIs and Web
- Description: load testing service - JMeter
- Price: $199 per month
- Load Impact:
- Type: APIs and Web
- Description: load testing service by Websuite
- Price: $60
- LoadStorm
- Type: APIs and Web
- Description: cloud testing service generated by SaaS
- Price: $40 per month
- Loader.io
- Type: APIs and Web
- Description: Sendgrind based free cloud testing
- Price: free