Comments on: A Comparison of Open Source Load Testing Tools

By: Beau

Beau — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:21:25 +0000

Hi there,
Great job.
Just wondering part 2 was hiding somewhere as I can;t seem to find it!

By: Testing tools

Testing tools — Tue, 03 May 2011 06:31:50 +0000

Stuart you’ve done great job. I clearly understand every topic in your open source code comparison. Some tools are better while compare to other tools. Every testing tool has its own criteria. We have to choose one which is suitable for our requirements. Thanks for your comparison and information.

Kiran

By: Raman Jain

Raman Jain — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:19:03 +0000

To me it is the great efforts by Stuart who has devoted time to figure out all such facts. I understand that every topic in itself could have open ended points to discuss but on the same side it is important to appreciate the one who actually has initiated it with most of the relevant information.

I appreciate the good work by Stuart.

Wish you all the best!
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By: Decent

Decent — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:21:52 +0000

great work. but i think you should compare these at same page. there should be separate page for each comparison. referring is not good job to understand it better

By: Robert Iakobashvili

Robert Iakobashvili — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:31:59 +0000

Hi,

I think, that you are very incorrect, referring to curl-loader as to a “dumb” tool.

People are loading by very very complex scenario, including dynamic URLs, URLs based on responses, various authentications, etc

You can get more info from the tool README and also (less updated) FAQ page:

http://curl-loader.sourceforge.net/doc/faq.html

By: Stuart Moncrieff

Stuart Moncrieff — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:01:52 +0000

Antony Marcano, who runs Testing Reflections (which aggregates various testing blogs), wrote OpenSTA, the free performance testing tool, versus the big-guns... in 2004, which is still an interesting read. Also, check out this large list of Open Source Performance Testing Tools (most of which are useless). This Linux.com article on Using free software for HTTP load testing covers some of the "dumb" load testing tools - curl-loader, httperf (released free by HP labs), Siege, and Tsung (formerly known as IDX-Tsunami).