WebLOAD is a tool for functional and load testing your web services. It provides recording functionality to automate test creation. Some components of this application are open source. However, The Console and IDE source portions of the overall program are still proprietary, but are available for free in binary format. The project appears to be active, both internally and externally. Please refer to the WebLOAD home for a full description.

Capabilities

Test Recording
HTTP (with javascript and dynamic session data)
HTTPS
MS-Access
SQL
MDB
Oracle
Extendable (C++)

User GUI:

The test creation GUI is somewhat user friendly. I did not find the IDE to immediately lend itself to writing test structures. However, the recording feature is easy and fast. It was a simple matter to record a test and run it almost immediately. The scripts are auto generated from the recorder, but the developer has the option of writing the scripts in javascript syntax. The workstation/IDE component of WebLOAD provides stand-alone test recording and functional testing. The scripts are recorded and written in javascript format.

Distributed Load Testing:

Once a script has been created in the WebLOAD IDE, a developer can begin the process of running the script in the Console portion of WebLOAD. The console allows a user to set-up and run the distributed load test using LoadGenerators/Nodes. Additionally, WebLOAD allows the developer to install a monitoring service on the target machine which will relay data back to the console. The monitoring service will keep track of system statistics such as CPU, memory, network I/O, and others. The LoadGenerator and TestTalk components are 100% open source C++. The LoadGenerators use a Java component emulator to simulate a Web Service client.