Best Load Testing Solutions

What are Load Testing Tools?

Load Testing Tools help organizations ensure their applications can handle varying amounts of traffic by simulating real-world load conditions.

To learn more, read our Load Testing Tools Buyer's Guide (Updated: November 2024).

The top 5 Load Testing Tool solutions are Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Professional, BlazeMeter and OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, as ranked by PeerSpot users in October 2024. OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise received the highest rating of 8.6 among the leaders. Apache JMeter is the most popular solution in terms of searches by peers and holds the largest mind share of 24.3%.

Users value Load Testing Tools for their ability to detect performance issues before they reach end-users, improving application reliability and user experience. These tools can simulate multiple user interactions, providing insights into how systems perform under stress. They play a critical role in performance optimization and capacity planning.

What are the key features to consider?

Scalability: Ability to simulate thousands of users to test the application under significant load.
Scripting Capabilities: Advanced scripting allows for the creation of custom scenarios and user behaviors.
Reporting: Detailed analytics and reporting features help in understanding performance metrics.
Integration: Compatibility with other development and monitoring tools to streamline workflows.
User Interface: An intuitive UI simplifies the setup and execution of load tests.

What benefits should users expect?

Improved Performance: Helps identify bottlenecks and optimize application performance.
Cost Efficiency: Prevents potential downtime and reduces costs associated with performance issues.
Enhanced User Experience: Ensures the application can handle real-world traffic, leading to a better user experience.
Risk Mitigation: Early detection of performance issues helps mitigate risks of application failure.

In finance, Load Testing Tools are crucial for ensuring online trading platforms can handle high volumes of transactions. In e-commerce, they ensure websites can cope with traffic surges during peak shopping seasons. They are also employed in telecom to test the reliability of communication networks under heavy usage.

The category is helpful for organizations by providing foresight into application performance and reliability, ensuring a seamless user experience even under high load conditions.

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Load Testing Tools solutions mindshare

As of November 2024, in the Load Testing Tools category, the mindshare of BlazeMeter is 16.3%, up from 13.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Apache JMeter is 24.3%, up from 21.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tricentis NeoLoad is 16.8%, up from 15.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Apache JMeter

Apache JMeter is an open-source Java application that tests load and functional behavior and performance in applications. Created initially to test web applications, it has expanded its functionality to test other functions. For instance, you can test a server to see how efficiently it works and how many user requests can be handled simultaneously.

8.2

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Tricentis NeoLoad

Tricentis NeoLoad is a performance testing tool that provides developers and testers with automatic test design, test maintenance, realistic simulation of user behavior, fast root cause analysis, and built-in integrations with the entire SDLC toolchain. With NeoLoad’s plugins, teams can reuse and share test assets and results from functional testing tools, analytics, metrics, and APM tools in order to catch performance issues early. With NeoLoad’s full tech stack support, users can test the range of mobile, web, and desktop apps.

8.1

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OpenText LoadRunner Professional

OpenText LoadRunner Professional is a performance testing tool used for various software applications, including web-related use cases, API testing, and enterprise performance modeling. Its valuable features include quick test case creation and execution, graph monitoring, multiple protocols, scripting and executing tests, scalability, easy setup, auto-correlation, analysis and reporting capabilities, stability, reliability, and compatibility with various programming languages.

8.5

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BlazeMeter

BlazeMeter ensures delivery of high-performance software by enabling DevOps teams to quickly and easily run open-source-based performance tests against any mobile app, website or API at massive scale to validate performance at every stage of software delivery.

8.0

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OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise

Your globally distributed performance testing teams have the responsibility of driving quality acrossyour enterprise while testing a broad range of application types, managing costs and deploying applications that meet the performance requirements of your business. OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise delivers a collaborative testing platform that reduces complexity, centralizes resources and leverages shared assets and licenses to increase consistency across your enterprise.

8.6

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OpenText LoadRunner Cloud

Do your performance and load testing in the cloud. OpenText LoadRunner Cloud makes it easy to plan, run, and scale performance tests without the need to deploy and manage infrastructure.

8.4

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Oracle Application Testing Suite

Application Testing Suite is a comprehensive, integrated testing solution that ensures the quality, scalability, and availability of your Web applications, Web Services, packaged Oracle Applications and Oracle databases.

8.2

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ReadyAPI Performance

ReadyAPI Performance is an open-source load and quality assurance testing solution whose design allows organizations of all sizes to completely control their load testing process. It gives administrators the ability to customize their testing parameters and tests to best meet their needs. They can also quickly run the tests that they need to run in order to guarantee the peak performance of their application and various network components.

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RadView WebLOAD

RadView WebLOAD is an enterprise-scale load testing solution that enables your organization to simulate massive user loads and understand how your application, servers, database, and other components behave to identify bottlenecks. The solution allows you to easily and rapidly record sessions and turn them into robust test scripts that you can execute in a variety of realistic runtime scenarios. RadView WebLOAD is capable of generating reliable and real-life load scenarios even for the most complex systems. It supports Windows and Linux OS systems, and is suitable for organizations of all sizes.

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Akamai CloudTest

Soasta's CloudTest rapidly builds realistic test scenarios using real user data, then tests, analyzes and repairs faster. CloudTest's visual test environment and real-time analytics test your website, mobile app and api backend to give you a streaming view of all your performance data while tests run from back-end systems to front end performance.

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StresStimulus

StresStimulus is a load testing tool for websites, mobile and Enterprise apps. It determines the web performance and scalability of your application under the rigors of heavy traffic load. Hundreds or thousands of physical users are realistically emulated through on-premise load generators or in a cloud testing environment

8.5

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SmartBear LoadNinja

SmartBear LoadNinja is a cloud-based next-generation tool designed to develop and implement automated load tests for web services and web applications. LoadNinja helps organizations test their web server’s performance during tremendous load and will determine scalability and define overall dynamics.

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Telerik Test Studio

Telerik Test Studio is an innovative and easy-to-use automated web, WPF and load testing solution. Test Studio tests support essential technologies like ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, PHP and MVC. Test Studio functional testing is a comprehensive yet cost-effective automated testing suite. Users can complete tasks quickly and easily with the product's point-and-click interface, which is augmented by Telerik-exclusive features like a visual storyboard and 3D element selection. Test Studio also offers script-less test automation for Silverlight applications. Test Studio load tests allow users to capture quickly capture, multiply and replay complex web traffic. Record HTTP traffic from desktop browsers, mobile devices and web services, and replay traffic with hundreds or thousands of virtual users spread across multiple machines. Fine-tune your load scenario with data binding, user authentication, and dynamic targets. Test Studio Mobile is an intuitive and easy to use test automation solution for Mobile application testing. Create tests once and test across multiple devices and OS's. The point and click functionality allows users to capture quickly and replay complex mobile testing functionality. There is no need to write a single line of code. Test against any number of real devices as you wish or through an emulator by connecting through Wifi. Test Studio for APIs helps customers verify the integrity and reliability of their APIs in an easy way and incorporate their API testing effort in their continuous testing and delivery process. Test Studio for APIs is used to determine whether APIs return the correct response for a broad range of commonly accepted requests, react properly to edge cases such as failures and unexpected inputs, as well as deliver the responses in an acceptable amount of time.

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k6 Open Source

Load Impact offers three main features:

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IBM Engineering Test Management

IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM), formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager (RQM), is a business-driven software quality environment designed for collaborative and customizable test planning, workflow control, tracking, and metrics reporting. When integrated with IBM DevOps Test Embedded (Test Embedded), ETM allows users to create test environments and scripts, deploy and run tests, and view HTML reports. This integration enables the creation of ETM test environments linked to Test Embedded target deployment ports, the deployment and execution of Test Embedded tests through the ETM interface, and the mapping of ETM test scripts to Test Embedded test suites. Additionally, users can import test suites as ETM test scripts, build new ETM test cases, and view test results as HTML reports within ETM. The integration requires the Test Embedded adapter service to be running on the user's computer.

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OpenText Silk Performer

Test Asset reusability for performance monitoringSilk Performer can considerably speed up testing cycles by allowing you to reuse your existing functional tests. Use Silk Test® or Selenium for performance testing and synthetic monitoring purposes as well.

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Tricentis Flood

Tricentis Flood is a cloud-based platform for load testing that assists teams in determining how their applications respond to loads that are distributed across the world. This solution makes load testing more accessible to developers and testers by lowering the complexity typically connected with it. By adding load testing into their CI/CD pipelines, teams can start testing the performance of their application components as they develop and continuously track the effects on the system's overall performance.

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Cavisson NetStorm

Cavisson NetStorm is a powerful load testing solution that is designed to enable application developers to greatly improve the way their applications function. It employs advanced software that enables it to perform many different tasks. This flexibility gives administrators the ability to test their applications in the way that best meets their needs. Cavisson NetStorm offers users the ability to scale their testing environments. These aspects of the solution are only a couple of the reasons that this platform is the load testing tool of choice of several fortune 100 corporations.

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Ixia IxLoad

IxLoad provides comprehensive performance tests for validation and user experience (QoE). IxLoad works by emulating web, video, voice, storage, wireless VPN, infrastructure and encapsulation protocols/security to create realistic scenarios. With a modular design, IxLoad scales infrastructure in real time, producing metrics that can quickly identify network impairments and isolate breakpoints.

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Automai AppLoader

We believe that testing your applications should be as easy as using them. Forget everything you know about testing, and imagine the cleanest way to test any application. That's what we did when we created AppLoader. Now, you don't need to plug in at the protocol level, or write a single line of code. Now you can test ANY of your applications with a simple solution that uses smart technology to get accurate results. Our approach is simple: Test what the user sees. Knows what works, and more importantly what doesn't work.One install will test all application layers: Citrix, third party applications, Virtual Desktop, mobile apps.Also integrates well with the leading testing and monitoring tools.Although we do not heavily market, we are well known through referrals. AppLoader will work when other products don't. Even HP consulting uses AppLoader for difficult apps. Try on your most challenging application. Free POC available here:https://www.nrgglobal.com/load-testing-tool-apploader-poc

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Dotcom-Monitor LoadView Stress Testing

LoadView provides scalable external load testing using real browsers. Spin up virtual machines in the Amazon, Google or Rackspace clouds without having to manage cloud accounts.Record scripts and run stress tests on demand. Learn more at https://www.loadview-testing.com

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UBIK Load Pack

Enterprise Grade load testing plugins for Apache JMeter.

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Appvance AIQ Platform

Appvance.ai is the leader in AI-driven testing, which is revolutionizing how software testing is performed. The company’s premier product is Appvance IQ™, the world’s first AI-driven, unified test automation system. AIQ empowers enterprises to improve the quality, performance and security of their apps, while transforming the efficiency and output of their testing teams.

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Spirent CloudStress

Spirent CloudStress is a web application that enables you to achieve predictability, resiliency and fault isolation in virtualized infrastructure. At its core, CloudStress is a synthetic workload generator that helps validate Enterprise VMs, VNFs and NFV / Cloud infrastructures by dynamically generating configurable simulated VM, VNFs or container to model various application loads.

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Cyrex Load Testing

Ensure your game or application's scalability and performance with Cyrex's advanced load testing services. Our proprietary headless technology, Cyrex Swarm, simulates real user behavior on a large scale, making your project ready for success even under heavy traffic.

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