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STRESS, LOAD, VOLUME, PERFORMANCE, BENCHMARK ANDBASE LINE TESTING TOOL EVALUATION AND COMPARISONCordell VailCopyright 2005 by Cordell Vail - All rights reservedwww.vcaa.comNOTE: The information contained in this document or on the handout CD at the seminars is for use only by theparticipants who attend one of our seminars. Distribution of this information to anyone other than those attending one ofthe seminars is not authorized by the authors. It is for educational purposes of the seminar attendees only.It is our intention that by putting this information here from the vendor web pages and from other testers evaluations, thatyou will have a tool that will let you do your own evaluation of the different tool features. Hopefully this will let you findtools that will best meet your needs.The authors are not recommending any of these tools as one being better than another. All the information has beentaken from reviews we have found on the Internet, from their own web pages, or from correspondence with the vendor.They have been grouped here according to our presentation outline. For some of the tools, we were not able todetermine the cost or type (ie open source) from their web page or correspondence with the vendor.Users are cautioned that they will be installing any downloaded tools at their own risk.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Table Of Contents Key:EVALUATION SECTIONPageVENDOR (and foreign country if known)Tool Name [type and price if known] TOOLS WORTH LOOKING AT (the listing by price does not imply prefereance). 12MICROSOFT .12Web App Stress Tool (WAS) [free]. 12APPPERFECT .37LoadTester [Free] . 37PUSHTOTEST .40Performance Kit [Free] . 40PILOT SOFTWARE LTD (TURKEY).43SiteTester [ 29.00] . 43SOFTLOGICA LLC (Russia) .472
WAPT [ 299] . 47LOADTESTING.COM.49Portent Supreme [ 279.95] . 49PAESSLER (Germany) .53Webserver Stress Tool 7 [ 624.95]. 53SIS –Florida Tech.60Holodeck [ 1,500]. 60MAJOR TOOLS (in the 93% of Market Share). 67MERCURY INTERACTIVE.67LoadRunner [Over 5,000] 54%. 67IBM RATIONAL.74Performance Tester [Over 5,000] 11%. 74COMPUWARE .75QALoad [Over 5,000] 9% . 75SEGUE .78SilkPerformer [Over 5,000] 7%. 78EMPIRIX.85e-TEST suite [Over 5,000] 6% . 853
RADVIEW.88WebLoad [[Over 5,000] 3% . 88OTHER LEADING VENDORS. 91MICROSOFT .91Application Center Test [ 2,999] . 91REDGATE SOFTWARE.92ANTS Load Professional Edition [ 2,490]. 92OPENDEMAND.94OpenLoad [ 2,195]. 94TEVRON.95CitraTest [Over 5,000] . 95HOSTEDLABS .98HostedToolBox [ 20 per month]. 98AUTOMATEDQA .101AQtime [ 599]. 101WEBPARTNER .103Stress Testing [ 500]. 1034
PARASOFT.104SOAPtest [ 895]andParasoft WebKing ( ?) . 104POWERPROXY.109PowerProxy [ 50] . 109NEOTYS.110NeoLoad [ 2,395] . 110APPPERFECT.COM .112AppPerfect DevSuite – LoadTester [Free edition and 499 edition]. 112PRICE OR TYPE UNKNOWN. . 115MONIFORCE.115WebStress . 115EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES .115Extreme Test . 116QUOTIUM.118QuotiumPRO . 118SOAP STONE .119Soap-Stone. 1195
OPTIMYZ.120WebServiceTester . 120SLAMD.123Slamd . 123SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS.128Avalanche. 128APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION .128Apache JMeter . 128STEPHEN GENUSA .130WebHammer 2.0 . 130WEBMETRICS [Out Sourcing Service) .131SiteStress . 131MINQ SOFTWARE.134PureLoad . 134LINCOLN STEIN .139Bare-bones Perl script. 139CAI NETWORKS.141WebSpray. 1416
SOFTWARE RESEARCH INC .143eValid. 143WEBPERFORMANCE INC .146WebPerformance Trainer . 146TECHNOVATIONS.148WebSizer . 148FACILITA SOFTWARE (UK) .154Forecast. 154OCLC INC .159WebArt [no longer on internet?] . 159Tip House .160CRYANO .160TestStream . 160AZIMITH .161Test Stream . 161OPEN SOURCE, SHAREWARE and FREEWARE VENDORS. . 162MICORSOFT .1627
Web Capacity Analysis Tool [Free] . 162WEBSERVICES.ORG (UK) .
Jan 01, 2001 · testing in the successful deployment of a Web application, focusing on Microsoft Web Application Stress (WAS), the tool used to test the performance of the Duwamish Online application. Introduction Performance testing is an essential element in successfully deploying a Web application. It's important to understand how the application and your Web
