Performance Testing - Top 5 Most Commonly and Widely used Tools

Performance testing is one of the most prominent and quintessential process for determining the effectiveness, scalability, speed, interoperability, and reliability of any application. It tests your system or application on different criteria, like comparing the speed of system, bandwidth, efficiency, and rate of data transfer.

Here is a list of top 5 best-known and widely used tools for testing the performance of any application, software or computer program – 

• Apache JMeter: It is an open source tool for performance testing based on Java applications. It is capable of loading into any network or server to check out its overall performance and analyzing its performance under a variety of conditions. It has a vast scope of testing several web applications, like Perl Scripts, Servlets, JAVA objects, and more.                                                                                 
• Web load testing: This reputed web application testing tool helps in performing stress and load testing on different internet applications like Adobe Flex, Ajax, Oracle Forms, .NET, HTML5, and more. It is an easy-to-use tool built with several exquisite features like automatic correlation, JavaScript language for scripting, DOM-based playback/recording etc.                                               
• HP LoadRunner: It is a successful tool from HP to evaluate the testing performance. It allows you to determine and understand the outcome as well as performance of systems at times of actual loads. It is capable of creating and handling numerous users at the same time.                                                       
• Neoload: This testing software analyzes and measures the performance of different websites. It can help you to optimize and improve the overall web application performance. It provides you complete information about its capacity as well as the number of users it can handle.                                           
• Load UI: This open source cross-platform testing tool allows you to configure, create, as well as update the tests in the process of application testing.                                                                             

Conclusion: Choose from either open source or commercial purpose performance testing tools to reduce the costs and risks involved in the process effectively. It provides significant outcomes for all types of complex testing.