Rational Robot, produced and maintained by IBM, is a very comprehensive solution for load testing on web services and software. When every aspect of a sophisticated web application must be thoroughly tested, Rational Robot is an excellent choice. In addition to load testing, Rational Robot performs functional verification and error detection. Extensive scripting functionality allows the tester to thoroughly test an application. This testing can be done in a direct fashion, without having to operate through the UI of the application.
Produced as a load testing utility, Reality Load XF from Gomez has a full range of features designed to create realistic testing conditions that truly prepare a web application for the rigors of the live production environment. With Reality Load XF, engineers can prototype new functionality without the fear of causing a breakdown in application reliability.
Webserver Stress Tool, developed by Paessler network monitoring, is an affordable solution for comprehensive HTTP/HTTPS based load testing. Although not as full featured as some other testing solutions, such as the Borland SilkPerformer, Paessler offers an alternative that is both affordable and flexible. With modern Web 2.0 software development, it has become impossible to adequately test performance in a manual fashion.
As an automated testing suite, Borland SilkPerformer boasts a broad range of features that are designed to minimize time to market and testing costs. SilkPerformer is engineered to work with a variety of environments, including web services, Java, .NET, COM, and many others.
In many high end production environments, it is simply impossible to perform realistic load testing manually. Such testing, however, is a crucial task that must be performed to ensure that a product is ready for live production situations. To solve staffing and hardware limitations, Hewlett Packard offers LoadRunner as a testing and performance analysis tool.
Testing provider SOASTA received 6.4 million in new funding from several VC funds to pursue automated software testing in the cloud. They are using Amazon’s EC2 to generate elastic load, and have completed a 100,000 user test.
LoadRunner (now called HP LoadRunner, since HP bought Mercury Interactive) is one of the most popular software automation and testing programs on the market. It is a comprehensive testing program that gives webmasters and developers the ability to test the functionality and load managing ability of their website. There are many reasons why LoadRunner is so popular and why it is a good choice as a software testing tool for your website.