Users consider RadView WebLOAD to be a very valuable load testing solution.
With the application, users can test:
- Web
- Mobile
- Packaged applications
The benefits of using RadView WebLOAD include:
- It is available as SaaS and can also be self-hosted on premises or in the cloud.
- Its high scalability. It can simulate hundreds of thousands of concurrent users from different locations and cloud platforms.
- Easy to use.
- Scalable.
- Highly successful in detecting performance issues and helps quickly resolve them - even for some of the most complex environments.
- Designed to accommodate users of all levels, regardless of their technical background. It is easy to use for novices, who may need hand-holding and are not fluent in coding, and is also suitable for sophisticated programmers, who require extensive options to build complex load integrations.
- Makes it possible to test complex use case scenarios for load testing, identify bottlenecks, and fix them very quickly. With RadView WebLOAD, engineer teams can easily create complex use cases or scripts by simply recording the use cases, without any need to know how to code, which saves a lot of time.
- Automatic load testing does not require the involvement of an engineer in the analysis of the results.
- Correlation, answer validation, and parameterization is done automatically, with almost no need for intervention. When scripts need to be changed, it can easily be done directly in the code (JavaScript).
- Reports and analytics are very comprehensive, and provide very useful insights.
- Integrates with Amazon AWS and has native integration with Java, so users can reuse their own jar files. In addition, it offers integration with Jenkins. Users can run load tests from a CI system. Integrations let you use WebLOAD together with APM tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic), open-source software (Selenium, Jenkins), mobile testing (Perfecto Mobile), and more.
- Tight integration with APM tools lets you instantly correlate test results to relevant server side events, cutting root cause identification time.
- Supports a wide range of protocols and technologies, including some of the most popular ones, like Angular, signalR, SAML, WCF, single-page-applications (SPA), and others.
- Price is quite comparable to its competitors. Their transparent licensing model is straightforward. Users don’t have to worry about escalating maintenance costs each time they need to support a new technology.
Some of the solution’s best features include:
- Simple test creation: With this feature, users can create and view their load script quickly with record and playback options.
- Automatic correlation of dynamic values.
- Enhance tests in JavaScript with more complex business logic.
- Test applications directly on mobile devices.
- Supports complex load scenarios with various options and settings.
- Generate load in the cloud.
- Automatically find bottlenecks.
- Continuous integration in agile environments.
- Powerful analysis tools and custom reports.
Additional features that are useful are:
- WebUI as default: Moving to server architecture as default, users can deploy WebLoad as a server and access it via their browser anywhere, at any time.
- High scale SaaS testing: The solution offers high scale testing. Additionally, it reduces the initialization time drastically and improves resource utilization so scaling is much easier.
- Analytics dashboards: RadView WebLOAD’s analytics dashboards provide over 80 configurable report templates for root cause analysis and let you share results across distributed teams.
- WebLOAD dashboard: The solution also includes added support for user-defined timers and transactions in SLA definition. There is an additional option to limit a session run to the specific number of execution rounds, and users have the ability to set Load Generator Spawning Factor. By using the WebLoad dashboard, users can view their load status from anywhere.
- WebLOAD recorder: The recorder feature offers correlation, parameterization, response validation, messaging, native JavaScripting, and debugging.
- Cloud load generators: Improved external load generator support over Azure and Google Cloud. Easier to set up a hybrid load generator environment using Azure and Google cloud.
- Load generation cloud/on-premise: The solution makes it possible to generate massive virtual user load from the cloud or locally using WebLoad Console, on Windows or Linux, via AWS or other cloud providers.
- Windows 11: RadView WebLOAD supports setup on Windows11, and users can use all the WebLOAD components on Windows 11.
- Customer support: The technical support is very knowledgeable and responds in a timely manner.
While RadView WebLOAD is a great product, users say it has some drawbacks. These include:
- Licenses are tied to a single computer, which can be a limiting factor.
- Finding useful examples of how to use Radview WebLOAD for API testing is challenging.
- More scripting examples of how to use Radview WebLOAD would be a welcomed addition to the solution.
- Having a quick start for different scenarios would be useful.
- Occasionally, the record functionality produces lines being recorded out of order.
- RadView Webload is focused on developers, and as such it requires technical skills to configure.
