Performance test tools

Apache JMeter

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

Description:

Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions. Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources (files, Servlets, Perl scripts, Java Objects, Data Bases and Queries, FTP Servers and more). It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types. You can use it to make a graphical analysis of performance or to test your server/script/object behavior under heavy concurrent load.

Requirement:

Solaris, Linux, Windows (98, NT, 2000). JDK1.4 (or higher).

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Database Opensource Test Suite

http://ltp.sourceforge.net/

Description:

The Database Opensource Test Suite (DOTS) is a set of test cases designed for the purpose of stress-testing database server systems in order to measure database server performance and reliability.

Requirement:

Linux, POSIX

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DBMonster

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbmonster/

Description:

DBMonster is an application to generate random data for testing SQL database driven applications under heavy load.

Requirement:

OS Independent

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Deluge

http://deluge.sourceforge.net/

Description:

An open-source web site stress test tool. Simulates multiple user types and counts. Includes proxy server for recording playback scripts, and log evaluator for generating result statistics. Note: this tool is no longer under active development although it is still available on Sourceforge.

Requirement:

OS independent

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Dieseltest

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dieseltest/

Description:

Contains the high-end features common to packages costing $50,000 or more. Dieseltest is a Windows application that simulates hundreds or thousands of users hitting a website. To run a load test, you first create a test script using our script editor. The script contains all of the requests that a real-world user would make of a website. You then load the script and run the test. The system will show you real-time results while the script is running, and produce a report analyzing the results at the conclusion.

Requirement:

Windows

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FunkLoad

http://funkload.nuxeo.org/

Description:

FunkLoad is a functional and load web tester, written in Python, whose main use cases are functional and regression testing of web projects, performance testing by loading the web application and monitoring your servers, load testing to expose bugs that do not surface in cursory testing, and stress testing to overwhelm the web application resources and test the application recoverability, and writing web agents by scripting any web repetitive task, like checking if a site is alive.

Requirement:

OS independent - except for the monitoring which is Linux specific.

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Grinder

http://grinder.sourceforge.net/

Description:

The Grinder is a Java load-testing framework making it easy to orchestrate the activities of a test script in many processes across many machines, using a graphical console application.

Requirement:

OS Independent

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Hammerhead 2 - Web Testing Tool

http://hammerhead.sourceforge.net/

Description:

Hammerhead 2 is a stress testing tool designed to test out your web server and web site. It can initiate multiple connections from IP aliases and simulated numerous (256+) users at any given time. The rate at which Hammerhead 2 attempts to pound your site is fully configurable, there are numerous other options for trying to create problems with a web site (so you can fix them).

Requirement:

Hammerhead has been used with Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.

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httperf

http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/httperf/

Description:

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance. The focus is not on implementing one particular benchmark but on providing a robust, high-performance tool that facilitates the construction of both micro and macro level benchmarks. The three distinguishing characteristics of httperf are its robustness, which includes the ability to generate and sustain server overload, support for the HTTP/1.1 and SSL protocols, and its extensibility.

Requirement:

linux (Debian package available), HP-UX, perhaps other Unix

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http_load

http://www.acme.com/software/http_load/

Description:

http_load runs multiple HTTP fetches in parallel, to test the throughput of a Web server. However, unlike most such test clients, it runs in a single process, to avoid bogging the client machine down. It can also be configured to do HTTPS fetches.

Requirement:

tbc

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JCrawler

http://jcrawler.sourceforge.net/

Description:

Stress-Testing Tool for web-applications. It comes with the crawling/exploratory feature. You can give JCrawler a set of starting URLs and it will begin crawling from that point onwards, going through any URLs it can find on its way and generating load on the web application. The load parameters (hits/sec) are configurable.

Requirement:

OS Independent

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Downloadable files: 4291 total downloads to date

 

NTime

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/ntime.asp

Description:

The NTime tool is very similar to NUnit tool to perform repeatable tasks that help managers, architects, developers and testers to test an application against its performance.

Requirement:

Windows 98 or above, .Net framework 1.1 or 2.0

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OpenSTA

http://OpenSTA.org/

Description:

A distributed software testing architecture based on CORBA. Using OpenSTA (Open System Testing Architecture) a user can generate realistic heavy loads simulating the activity of hundreds to thousands of virtual users. OpenSTA graphs both virtual user response times and resource utilization information from all Web Servers, Application Servers, Database Servers and Operating Platforms under test, so that precise performance measurements can be gathered during load tests and analysis on these measurements can be performed.

Requirement:

Windows 2000, NT4 and XP

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OpenWebLoad

http://openwebload.sourceforge.net/

Description:

OpenLoad is a tool for load testing web applications. It aims to be easy to use and providing near real-time performance measurements of the application under test.

Requirement:

Linux, DOS

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Downloadable files: 25841 total downloads to date

 

Seagull

http://gull.sourceforge.net/

Description:

Seagull is a multi-protocol traffic generator test tool. Primary aimed at IMS protocols, Seagull is a powerful traffic generator for functional, load, endurance, stress and performance tests for almost any kind of protocol. Currently supports Diameter, XCAP over HTTP, TCAP (GSM Camel, MAP, Win) protocols.

Requirement:

Linux/Unix/Win32-Cygwin

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Siege

http://www.joedog.org/

Description:

SIEGE is an http regression testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure the performance of their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet. It lets the user hit a webserver with a configurable number of concurrent simulated users. Those users place the webserver "under siege." SCOUT surveys a webserver and prepares the urls.txt file for a siege. In order to perform regression testing, siege loads URLs from a file and runs through them sequentially or randomly. Scout makes the process of populating that file easier. You should send out the scout, before you lay siege.

Requirement:

GNU/Linux, AIX, BSD, HP-UX and Solaris.

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Downloadable files: 554 total downloads to date

 

Sipp

http://sipp.sourceforge.net/

Description:

SIPp is a performance testing tool for the SIP protocol. Its main features are basic SIPStone scenarios, TCP/UDP transport, customizable (xml based) scenarios, dynamic adjustement of call-rate and a comprehensive set of real-time statistics. It can also generate media (RTP) traffic for audio and video calls.

Requirement:

Linux/Unix/Win32-Cygwin

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Downloadable files: 41919 total downloads to date

 

SLAMD

http://www.slamd.com/

Description:

SLAMD Distributed Load Generation Engine is a Java-based application designed for stress testing and performance analysis of network-based applications.

Requirement:

Any system with Java 1.4 or higher

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Soap-Stone

http://soap-stone.sourceforge.net/

Description:

Network benchmark application which can put your network under load and conduct automatic benchmark and recording activities.

Requirement:

OS Independent

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stress_driver

http://sourceforge.net/projects/stress-driver/

Description:

General-purpose stress test tool.

Requirement:

Windows NT/2000, Linux

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TestMaker

http://www.pushtotest.com/ptt/

Description:

TestMaker from PushToTest.com delivers a rich environment for building and running intelligent test agents that test Web-enabled applications for scalability, functionality, and performance. It comes with a friendly graphical user environment, an object-oriented scripting language (Jython) to build intelligent test agents, an extensible library of protocol handlers (HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, XML-RPC, SMTP, POP3, IMAP), a new agent wizard featuring an Agent Recorder to write scripts for you, a library of fully-functional sample test agents, and shell scripts to run test agents from the command line and from unit test utilities.

Requirement:

Java 1.4 or higher virtual machine on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Macintosh.

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TPTEST

http://tptest.sourceforge.net/about.php

Description:

The purpose with TPTEST is to allow users to measure the speed of their Internet connection in a simple way. TPTEST measures the throughput speed to and from various reference servers on the Internet. The use of TPTEST may help increase the consumer/end user knowledge of how Internet services work.

Requirement:

MacOS/Carbon and Win32

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Downloadable files: 66442 total downloads to date

 

Tsung

http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/

Description:

Tsung is a distributed load testing tool. It is protocol-independent and can currently be used to stress HTTP, SOAP and Jabber servers (SSL is supported). It simulates complex user's behaviour using an XML description file, reports many measurements in real time (including response times, CPU and memory usage from servers, customized transactions, etc.). HTML reports (with graphics) can be generated during the load. For HTTP, it supports 1.0 and 1.1, has a proxy mode to record sessions, supports GET and POST methods, Cookies, and Basic WWW-authentication. It has already been used to simulate thousands of virtual users.

Requirement:

Tested on Linux, but should work on MacOSX and Windows.

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Web Application Load Simulator

http://jobmanager.sourceforge.net/openware_pub/

Description:

LoadSim is a web application load simulator. It allows you to create simulations and have those simulations run against your webserver.

Requirement:

JDK 1.3 or above

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Downloadable files: 7971 total downloads to date

 

Web Polygraph

http://www.web-polygraph.org/

Description:

Benchmarking tool for caching proxies, origin server accelerators, L4/7 switches, content filters, and other Web intermediaries.

Requirement:

C++ compiler

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