Load testing
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Load testing is the process of putting demand on a structure or system and measuring its response.
Software load testing
The term load testing or stress testing is used in different ways in the professional software testing community. Load testing generally refers to the practice of modeling the expected usage of a software program by simulating multiple users accessing the program concurrently.
Load testing tools
- Apache JMeter
- BlazeMeter
- Blitz (discontinued in 2018)
- Flood
- Gatling
- HammerDB
- Loader.io
- LoadRunner
- LoadUI (integrated now in ReadyAPI)
- Locust - Web load testing
- Login VSI
- NeoLoad
- OpenSTA
- Parasoft SOAtest
- Rational Performance Tester
- Siege
- Silk Performer
- SoapUI
- Test Studio
- Tsung
- Visual Studio Enterprise edition (deprecated after Visual Studio 2019)
- Vegeta
- WebLOAD
See also
- Test
- load
- Internet Application Management
- Soak testing
- Stress testing
- Structural testing
- System testing
- Web testing
- Web server benchmarking