StresStimulus Reviews

Following Microsoft’s Visual Studio Web & Performance testing tools being deprecated, StresStimulus had been adopted to continue performance testing work of an enterprise scale application with web-based user interfaces for customer interaction & back-office processing. 

StresStimulus is being used to validate the non-functional requirement commitments made to clients, ensuring the product satisfies the volumes of concurrent users specified in contractual documentation and helping to identify system performance bottlenecks that can then be investigated and better optimized by development teams.

StresStimulus is being used as an alternative to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Web & Performance testing tools used previously, as the Microsoft tools have been deprecated. StresStimulus has been beneficial as it is a product in active development with a responsive support team, whereas, in contrast, the Microsoft tools are no longer supported or developed. 

For small simple test cases and scenarios, StresStimulus offers similar functionality to the Visual Studio Web & Performance testing tools. However, for larger, more complex tasks, we’re finding it necessary to reduce the scope and scale of aspects of test scenarios that were previously possible with Visual Studio – either capturing fewer PerfMon metrics, reducing the monitoring sample rate, or reducing the concurrent usage profiles & test durations.

We use Stress Stimulus to run performance tests and scalability tests both for the web and APIs. The tests are run on local PCs, on-prem VMs, and cloud VMs. Our application is mainly web-based and changes very often, so we need a solution where recording and running tests need to happen in a short period of time. For this, StresStimulus perfectly fits in. 

Since our tests are fast-paced, getting stuck with problems needs attention immediately. The support team does an excellent job of responding within a day.

We have small-scale and large-scale tests running frequently. Thanks to the flexibility of StresStimulus, we were able to get the license customized to fit exactly our needs. 

Most of the time, the graphs coming out of the tool are very well done and little work is required on our side to plot any new graphs. 

Installation and upgrading on VMs are almost seamless, hence not having to rely on infrastructure teams for installation on new machines or upgrades, enabling us to move much faster.

We use StresStimulus for all our performance test requirements which include performance regression tests, performance test automation, reporting of performance results, and performance testing new features. Performance test environments include dedicated on-prem test labs as well as testing against cloud instances or hybrid apps.

We run StresStimulus in our CI/CD pipelines on all our release branches which cover changes, updates, performance improvements, and new features with automated release triggers.

Designed to be a modern testing tool, StresStimulus made it easy for us to upgrade from an older deprecated testing tool and adapt to Agile DevOps testing principles by shifting left with performance testing. 

The ability to automatically create and send out test result reports increased test coverage momentum. Detailed reporting and dashboarding increased results visibility and tracking.

Compatibility with other testing script types means we can use existing test collateral in the form of Postman and Selenium scripts as performance test scenarios, increasing code coverage with less rework required.