Check out this list that covers open-source as well as licensed software testing tools. Most of the tools listed here offer free trial versions to give a chance to the users to check it out before final investment.
We have listed some key tools to execute Performance, Load and Stress Testing on the Web Applications. This ensures the application’s performance under diverse situations and challenging scenarios.
- Apache JMeter
It is an Open Source load testing tool, scripted in Java 6+ and can operate across platforms. Apache recently released JMeter ‘v2.11’ that supports all platforms and is used for load testing to analyze and gauge performance of the system/application.
Its strong GUI helps build Test Plan quickly and debug processes. It further helps analyze the overall performance under various loads on the server, and the network.
Official Website: Apache JMeter
2. NeoLoad
This is a load and stress testing tool by Neotys built for Windows, Linux, and Solaris. It is available in English and French, and its latest version 4.2 helps measure, analyze, and improve the performance of the website.
While there are multiple users simultaneously accessing the website, the tool helps check the performance of the website under added load to ensure required user experience. It makes the testing process faster, efficient, and repetitive.
Official Website: NeoLoad
3. LoadRunner
A load testing tool by HP that is built for Windows and Linux to test the web and other applications effectively. It is available in version 12.0 with multiple languages.
The tool helps evaluate the tool’s performance under heavy load, where there is a probability of multiple users accessing the website at the same time. Additionally, it handles numerous protocols for load testing – .NET Record/Replay, Database, DCOM, GUI Virtual Users, Java Record/Replay, Network, Oracle E-Business, Remote Access.
Official Website: LoadRunner
4. LoadUI
LoadUI latest version is available in version 2.7 that is written in Java, JaveFX, and Groovy language and supports diverse platforms. It mainly supports web services and SopaUI 5.0 (a functional testing tool).
The latest version has corrected issues that were present in the earlier version of LoadUI. The tool is currently available in Pro version with drag-and-drop interface that helps test the load in a real-time scenario.
Official Website: LoadUI
5. Loadster
It is a commercial load testing tool implemented to test websites web applications/services (HTTP web services) that emulates the environment to test the application’s performance under heavy load, given by the tool. It supports Linux, Mac, and Windows.
It is a feature-loaded tool that works on web applications/services, cookies, sessions, custom header, etc. It is implemented to test the performance, resilience, stability and scalability of web applications. It simulates multiple users, networks with the site and collects statistics. This helps determine and eliminate performance bottlenecks to ultimately manage traffic and crisis situations.
Official Website: Loadster
6. Load impact
It is an online load testing tool used to test the performance of websites, web and mobile apps, and APIs under load and across various platforms. The tools enables to conduct tests online instead of having an offline platform in place.
While the testing process is fast, the user can also repeat the tests easily and within shorter time span.
Official Website: Load impact
7. Wapt
It is a load and stress testing tool that works on Windows and provides an easy and cost-effective way to specifically test business applications websites, mobile websites, web portals, etc. It works on secure HTTPS websites, dynamic content and RIA applications under a data-driven mode.
Official Website: Wapt
- Qtest
It is a web load testing tool by Quotium Technologies SA, analyzes the application and supports all Windows platforms. It provides easy to use interface and can be opted as an OnDemand hosted solution or an OnPremise application.
Official Website: Qtest
- httperf
Web server performance/benchmarking tool from HP Research Labs. Provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and measuring server performance. Focus is not on implementing one particular benchmark but on providing a robust, high-performance, extensible tool. Available free as source code in C.
Official Website: httperf
- Telerik Test Studio
The test automation tool by Telerik tests web and desktop applications across all Windows OS. The tool tests the application’s functionality, performance, and load. Additionally, it offers a plugin for Visual Studio and a solo app to test the cross-browsing issue.
Test Studio supports various languages namely, HTML, AJAX, Silverlight, and ASP.NET and can run test across browsers.
Official Website: Telerik Test Studio
- AgileLoad
It is a load testing tool from Agile Load SA to test applications for the Web and Mobile. Its features include automatic recording of test scenarios, distributed load injectors, infrastructure monitoring, and creation of custom test reports for each user profile.
Additionally, it provides a script storyboard that provides graphical view of test scenarios that enables customization. The Load injectors can be installed on your network or on the Cloud.
Official Website: AgileLoad
- Tsung
Free open-source multi-protocol distributed load testing tool supported by Process-One. Can be used to stress HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP and Jabber/XMPP servers. SSL is also supported. OS monitoring (CPU, memory and network traffic) using SNMP, Munin or Erlang agents on remote servers. XML configuration system; several sessions can be used to simulate different type of users. Dynamic sessions can be described in XML. User think-times and the arrival rate can be randomized using a probability distribution. HTML reports can be generated during the load to view response times measurement, server CPU, etc. Developed in Erlang.
Official Website: Tsung
- HttpRider
It is an Open-Source tool that is used for Load, Performance and Stress testing of Web applications. It is developed in .NET by Alexandru Botez. It creates http scenarios by reporting http requests using Fiddler and repeats them on the basis of the user’s configuration.
It can customize a chain of queries and parameters by attaching them to a customized data source with the purpose to emulate non-identical requests.
Official Website: HttpRider
- Sandstorm
It is a load testing tool from Impetus Technologies Inc. that supports protocols for the Web, Mobile and Email. It facilitates test from multiple locations, across browsers and simulates cache with rich extensible framework for modification of test cases by using JavaScript and core Java APIs.
It provides User Interface for handling dynamic parameters and automated cookies. It also integrates resource monitoring for most of the popular Web applications and Database servers.
Official Website: Sandstorm
- Multi-Mechanize
It is an Open-Source framework by Corey Goldberg, implemented for testing web performance and load testing. It enables execution of simultaneous python scripts to generate load on a website/web application.
The results for which can be reported in a CSV format along with an HTML report containing statistics and graphs. If you have proficiency with Python, HTTP, then it is recommended to use this tool.
Official site: Multi-Mechanize
- Load2Test
It is a Performance/Load/Stress testing tool from Enteros Inc. that can simulate real production workload in the back-end for testing the application’s performance. It is also available in the Amazon EC2, RackSpace or PlatForm Labs cloud environments.
Its integrated performance management and root cause analysis system mechanically collect performance metrics across load test infrastructure and implement cross-component connections to detect performance bottlenecks.
Official site: Load2Test
- Xceptance LoadTest
It is a load testing and regression tool by Xceptance Software Technologies Inc. for load testing performance of Web applications or any other applications. It holds recording capabilities with availability of XLT Cloud Service.
It can develop scripts with Script Developer IDE or code all tests in Java using WebDriver.
Official site: Xceptance LoadTest
- Blazemeter
It is a self-service, on-demand, cloud-based load testing tool that can simulate varied user scenarios for testing websites, web applications, mobile apps/services. It is Apache JMeter compatible – pre-configured JMeter environments with up to 144 CPU cores and 500 GB of memory. It enables you to set up tests across locations, access test results, evaluate reports, compare and evaluate against earlier reports on a unitary console.
The traffic can be generated using public cloud providers or install an on-premise load generator on your machine and test within the firewall on the internal network. It also provides free tools and resources for tips to optimize website and performance of the applications.
Official site: Blazemeter
- LoadStorm
It is a web-based load testing tool by CustomerCentrix, LLC and leverages Amazon Web services to scale up on demand for processing power and bandwidth. The load tests for web and mobile can be built using the tool to simulate multiple users with unique logins and purposes.
Official site: LoadStorm
- Neustar Web Performance
It is a self-service, on-demand and pay-as-you-go service by Neustar that enables you to simulate massive volumes of real browsers that hit the website. It uses Selenium, cloud-based real/simulated browsers, AJAX and Flash support.
In its reports it incorporates screen shots of the browsers with errors.
Official site: Neustar Web Performance
- Pylot
It is an Open-source tool by Corey Goldberg that generates simultaneous loads, where you can define test cases in an XML file – specify requests – url, method, body/ payload, etc. It can be verified by matching content to regular expressions with HTTP status codes.
It helps monitor and execute test suites from GUI (wxPython), adjust load, agents, intervals, and test duration. It further displays real-time stats and reports errors.
Official site: Pylot
- AppLoader
It is a load testing app by NRG Global to test websites and other applications that can be accessible from Windows desktop and generates load from the end user’s perspective. It is protocol independent and supports a diverse range of enterprise class applications. It runs from Windows platforms.
Official site: AppLoader
- fwptt
It is an Open-source tool by Bogdan Damian for load testing web applications and had capabilities to handle AJAX and can generate tests in C#.
Official site: fwptt
- JCrawler
It is an Open-source tool for stress testing web applications, comprising crawling and exploratory features. Here the user can provide JCrawler a set of URLs to start with and begin crawling from that point, so while going through any URLs it can generate load on the application.
The Load parameters (hits/sec) can be configured with central XML file and fire up as many number of threads as required to generate the load constantly. Additionally, the tool is platform independent.
Official site: JCrawler
- vPerformer
It is a Performance and load testing tool from Verisium Inc. that can assess the performance and scalability of the web application. It users recorded scripts or customized scripts by using Javascript.
The target platform is Windows and the VCloudPerformer, which is a free cloud load testing tool can be used to evaluate the performance, scalability, and load stress capacity of web applications by implementing on-demand load servers on Amazon EC2 cloud.
Official site: vPerformer
- Curl-Loader
It is an Open-source tool scripted in ‘C’ that simulates load and specific behaviour of thousands of HTTP/HTTPS and FTP/FTPS clients, with its own source IP-address. As against other tools, curl-loader uses real C-written client protocol stacks, namely, HTTP and FTP stacks of libcurl and TLS/SSL of OpenSSL.
With this tool you can log activities of each virtual client and the statistics collected comprise, resolution, connection establishment, requests generation, responses generation, errors recorded from the network, TLS/SSL and application (HTTP, FTP) level events and errors.
Official site: Curl-Loader
- The Grinder
It is a Java-based load testing framework that is available for free under a BSD-style open-source license. It helps synchronize activities within a test script across processes, across machines by using graphical console application.
It comes with an evolved plug-in for testing HTTP services and a tool that allows HTTP scripts for recording automatically.
Official site: The Grinder
- Testing Master
It is a load testing tool by Novosoft and its capabilities include IP spoofing, multiple concurrent test cases and holds various testing features for sites with dynamic content and secures pages with HTTPS.
Official site: Testing Master
- Avalanche
It is a load testing application from Spirent Communications used to design stress-test security, network, and Web application infrastructures by generating massive user and network traffic. It can emulate about two million synchronously connected users with unique IP addresses, emulates multiple Web browsers, with Web Services testing Supports
Official site: Avalanche
- Loader
It is a stress testing tool that runs on WinXP and comes with free evaluation versions for two virtual users. The capture module provides a development environment that utilizes C# scripting and XML based data.
The Control module defines, schedules, and deploys tests, further defining the number of virtual users, etc. The Analysis module evaluates the results and brings reporting capabilities.
Official site: Loader
- Visual Studio Test Professional
It is a suite of testing tools for testing Web applications and services integrated within the Microsoft Visual Studio environment. The suite includes Lab Management capabilities and enables testers to script, execute, and mange tests within Visual Studio.
Official site: Visual Studio Test Professional
- OpenLoad
It is a cost-effective and entirely web-based load testing tool by OpenDemand and does not require scripting languages and its web-based recorder can capture and translate user actions across the website/web application.
Additionally, it can generate up to 1000 simultaneous users with minimum hardware.
Official site: OpenLoad
- Siege
It is an Open-source Stress/Regression testing tool that supports basic authentication, cookies, HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It enables testing a web server and can configure multiple simultaneous users.
With this tool you can stress test a single URL with a particular number of users or stress test multiple URLs concurrently. Developed by Jeffery Fulmer, the tool helps report total transactions, elapsed time, bytes transferred, response time, server response and so on.
Official site: Siege
- OpenSTA
The tool ‘Open System Testing Architecture’ is a free, Open-source web load/stress testing application that is licensed under the Gnu GPL. It utilizes a spread out software architecture based on CORBA.
Official site: OpenSTA
- PureLoad
It is a Java-based multi-platform performance testing and analysis tool by PureLoad Software that comprises ‘Comparer’ and ‘Recorder’ capabilities, enables dynamic data input, and edits/debugs the scenario and generates load for single or distributed sources.
Official site: PureLoad
- ApacheBench
It is a Perl API that is used for benchmarking and regression testing and can be used as a foundation for a complete benchmarking and regression testing suite for transaction-based perl sites. It can be used for stress-testing the server while verifying the correct HTTP responses.
Official site: ApacheBench
- Torture
The Bare-bones Perl script by Lincoln Stein is used for testing the speed, dependability, responsiveness and testing stability of a particular Web server. It can send huge amounts of random data to a server and then evaluate the speed and response time.
Official site: Torture
- WebSpray
It is a cost-effective load testing tool from CAI Networks that enables link testing and can simulate up to 1000 clients from a single IP. Further also supports multiple IP addresses with or without aliases. It is built for Windows.
Official site: WebSpray
- WebPerformance
It is a load testing tool by Web Performance Inc. that focuses on offering ease to the users and supports all browsers and web servers. It further enables recording and allows the user to view exact bytes flowing between the browser and the server. It does not require scripting.
It can automatically tackle variations in session-specific items namely, cookies, usernames, passwords, IP addresses, and much more.
Official site: Load Testing by Web Performance
- Optima Quality Studio
It is a collection of load testing, capture/playback, and similar tool from Technovations to enable performance testing of the websites. The modules include WebCorder, Load Director, Report Generator, Batch, Manager and many more.
It further enables authentication, SSL, cookies, redirects and records scripts that can be modified manually.
- QALoad
It is a tool by Microfocus for load/stress testing web, database, and character-based systems. It supports HTTP, SSL, SOAP, XML, Media streaming that operates across a variety of databases, middleware, and ERP solutions.
Official site: QALoad
- IBM Rational Performance Tester
It is a Performance testing tool by IBM/Rational and offers optional extensions to Seibel applications and SAP solutions. Additionally it supports Windows, Linux, offering high-level detailed views of the tests.
Official site: IBM Rational Performance Tester
- Radview’s WebLoad
It is a load testing tool by Radview Software, where test scripting is done via visual tool or Javascript with improved load testing objects and methods. It handles mobile load testing and comes with ability to record native or browser-based apps directly from the mobile handset. Additionally, it can integrate with selenium.
It can further run load generators in the cloud and does not require special licenses. It can generate tailored out-of-the-box reports/graphs with drill-down capabilities.
Official site: Radview’s WebLoad
- SilkPerformer
It is an enterprise-class load testing tool by Microfocus and can simulate thousands of users working with numerous protocols and across diverse computing environments. It facilitates behaviour predictions for the e-business environment prior to deployment, regardless of the size and complexity.
Official site: SilkPerformer
Source : www.cigniti.com/blog/list-of-top-100-software-testing-tools/
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Post author by Senior QA Nazeer
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