Measuring Web Application Performance using Open Source
Tools
If your page does not load within 5 seconds, 50% of customers
abandon your site, that statement speaks a lot in itself about the
increasing need of customers for high speed access to web
applications. And with mobile web also causing significant traffic
to websites and web applications, it is important to have the
performance of your web application checked
With the need for analyzing the performance of your web
application increasing, it is a good idea to evaluate some of the
popular open source Performance testing tools. We will talk about
why you should use an Open source performance test tool for your
Performance testing needs and give an overview of some of the
popular Open source performance test tools.
Why choose Open Source Performance Test tool:
No licensing cost a commercial load testing tool can really burn
your pockets when you want to test with heavy number of virtual
users
Generate (almost) infinite amount of load on the web application
without any additional licensing costs. The only limitation would
be the resources available
Create your own plug-ins to extend the analysis and reporting
capabiltiies Integrate with other open source and commercial tools
to drive end to end test cycles
Some of the Popular Open Source Performance Test tools:
Apache J Meter
Apache J Meter is an open source load testing tool built on the
Java Platform. This testing tool is developed to test load test
functional behavior and performance testing. It supports testing on
static and dynamic resources such as Servlets, Java Objects, Perl
Scripts, FTP servers, Data Bases, etc. It requires JVM 1.4 or
higher to perform. Although it was designed initially to test web
applications, today its scope has widened to other test areas.
With a vast user community and ever expanding list of Plugins,
JMeter is a favorite for many organizations when it comes to
Performance, stress and load testing.
Load UI
Load UI is a very popular open source stress testing tool used
for web application performance testing. It supports testing of
numerous web protocols such as AMF, REST, JMS, JDBC and web sites.
Many testers agree that LoadUI is one of the most interactive and
user-friendly testing tools around. This tool is integrated with a
functional testing tool soapUI, which adds to its effectiveness.
During the testing phase it allows testers to create, configure and
update their tests. LoadUI features a high graphic interface that
makes testing easier.
LoadUI also comes as LoadUI Pro to extend the features that the
open source version provides.
Open STA (Open System Testing Architecture)
Open STA is the abbreviation for Open System Testing
Architecture and it is built around COBRA. This GUI based testing
tool is used by testers for load analyzing and load testing. This
is a complex testing tools and is known to perform heavy test load
for scripted HTTP and HTTPS. Here, the tests are performed using
simple scripts, recordings and it also takes into account various
results and statistics. During load tests, Open STA graphs resource
utilization information from application servers, web servers,
operating platforms and database servers that help in further
analysis.
THE GRINDER GENERIC JYTHON LOAD TESTER
Using the Java implementation of Python (Jython), The Grinder is
a script-only, feature rich load testing platform. Possibly the
most powerful lightweight free load testers on the market, but also
the most difficult to master. No GUI to speak of, very little in
the way of examples but at least it has a good FAQ. It isnt useful
for Front End Automation, but otherwise The Grinder is flexible and
infinitely useful if you can master it. This is the programmers
preferred load testing tool.
The Performance Engineering team at Gallop has helped many
customers identify the key bottlenecks and helped fixing them. We
have enabled the customers to utilize Open source tools like JMeter
with their enterprise resources to generate higher loads, at no
extra cost, to stress test their applications.
Gallop also helps you generate real time Mobile browser load
with its huge set of devices in the Mobile Test Lab spread across
geographic locations.
If you are unsure of your web performance strategies, you are
losing many customers, write to us today at [email protected], and
we will help your application reach its real performance
potential!
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