Tutorials, articles, tools and resources on how to perform load testing in software testing.
The Apache JMeter is an open source load testing tool developed by the Apache Foundation that can be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources. It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server and also some functional testing. JMeter has an open architecture that can be extended with plugins.
Database testing is one of the areas that might have the smaller number of open source tools. The programming languages have many xUnit tools and mocking frameworks, but this is not the case for databases. This article provides a list of open source tools that can be used to perform unit, load and security testing on several relational (MySQL, Oracle, SQLServer, etc.) and NoSQL databases.
QA had thoroughly tested the new release, performed Unit tests, functional tests and yet… we still crashed. The ultimate goal in development is to make sure the application works for the end users in the production env, not just in QA. This is where load testing and Gatling come in.
Ensuring your applications perform optimally under various conditions is crucial in today’s digital landscape. Load testing is a critical aspect of performance testing because it helps organizations identify and mitigate performance bottlenecks ensuring a seamless experience for your users.
Gatling is an open source load testing tool. It officially supports HTTP, WebSocket, Server-Sent-Events and JMS. Gatling is developed in Scala and built upon Netty for non-blocking HTTP. It works with Akka for virtual users’ orchestration.
Locust is an open source load testing tool that supports running load tests distributed over multiple machines and can be used to simulate millions of simultaneous users. This article provides pointers to documentation, tutorials, courses and videos to learn how to use Locust open source load testing tool.
The software development trend that shifts the target platform from the desktop to web, cloud and mobile applications has fostered the development of load testing services and performance testing tools on the web. It is an obvious option to use web-based and cloud-based load testing tools for applications that can be accessed by web users. This article presents the free offers from commercial web load testing services providers.
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