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What are performance testing tools? Before an application can be deployed, it should ideally be tested under different operating conditions to make sure it can perform as expected. To do this, software testing professionals use performance testing tools (sometimes just called “testing tools”) to isolate and identify potential client, network, and server bottlenecks that might affect how an application will behave in production.

Some performance test products are commercial. Others are open source. They do QA testing and stress testing. They can do either manual testing or automated testing. Most tools have features for extensive test automation to save time. Most are able to do a website test.

Test automation users on PeerSpot have commented at length regarding the best features to seek in an automation testing toolset or performance testing tool. Users want testing tools to be very easy to download and set up. Ease of use and levels of automation are also important, given the limitations one testing personnel and resources.

A good performance testing tool should make it easy to create test plans and follow through on them. According to PeerSpot users, a tool should be able to simulate a load of concurrent users and enable extensive, flexible reporting output to show the results.

Some test tools offer a recording feature, which makes it easy to create test plans. For instance, the tool might provide testing templates. The tool should support multiple protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP etc.) and technology stacks, such as SAP, JAVA and so forth. Users value flexibility and the ability to monitor systems under test. Testing tools that offer comprehensive results analysis are praised for making testing teamwork more efficient.

Some users want performance monitoring tools to offer powerful scripting tools to record user actions programmatically. A flexible, versatile scripting engine can extend tests with success-failure checks that make the test more intelligent. The ability to ramp concurrent users makes the tool representative of real world use conditions. In this way, the tester can scale up in order to simulate load.

Leaderboard for Performance Testing Tools

Check out the members with the highest scores who have reviewed Performance Testing Tools.

#1. Abbasi Poonawala

1615

Points

User at a financial services firm

Reviewed Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud:

Offers good record and playback and endurance features

#2. Abdulla Pathan

1205

Points

Technology Competency and Solution Head at LearningMate

Reviewed Apache JMeter:

It is easily deployable and extendable, but it should start supporting the presentation layer

#3. David Collier

660

Points

Co-Founder at Nobius IT

Reviewed Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise:

Performance testing that should be part of your everyday application development lifecycle

#4. reviewer1393596

680

Points

IT Manager at a insurance company

Reviewed ReadyAPI:

Fast automation, less coding, and pretty lightweight

#5. Ravi Suvvari

580

Points

Performance and Fault-tolerance Architect

Reviewed Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise:

The web interface, which allows use by multiple users in multiple locations, is helpful as we…

#6. reviewer1322280

470

Points

Regional Head Customer Experience at a financial services firm

Reviewed Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional:

Supports multiple protocols, easy to install and use, and handles large workloads

#7. KashifJamil

450

Points

CEO at a tech consulting company

Reviewed IBM Rational Test Workbench:

Good integration with other tools, stable, scales easily

#8. reviewer1800201

350

Points

Global Delivery Head at a consultancy

Reviewed BlazeMeter:

Lacking support and security, but has multifaceted capabilities

#9. Jangsun KIM

295

Points

CEO at Panoptics Corp.

Reviewed Spirent Avalanche:

Quality traffic testing and is reasonably priced

#10. Vijay kumar

290

Points

Associate QA Manager at Xcel Serv Solution

Reviewed BlazeMeter:

Great performance testing and API Mocking with reliable stability

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