What are your favorite open source tools for web app load/performance testing?
I came across this article which mentions these open source tools: Jmeter, OpenSTA and Grinder. Please let me know what your favorite choices. Thanks!
http://www.myloadtest.com/open-source-tools-performance-testing/
Her recommended solution is the open source tools - “five years ago they just weren’t there, but today they are.” Her personal preference is JMeter, but also recommends OpenSTA and The Grinder. Open-source tools have the advantage of being a good price, and having source code available; she also makes the point that they use standard programming languages for scripting (although this is incorrect when talking about OpenSTA).
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JMeter in our experience is a good performance testing tool. The only issue is you have to right utilities to upload any data into database as it does not have the capability to populate the database.
Both OpenSTA and JMeter are good tools and I liked JMeter since it was easy and to load data from databases, I think we should mix up selenium and JMeter / Open STA to load the data.
Gokul M also suggests this expert on this topic:
Kamran S
Senior Software Engineer [MCPD.net]
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Jmeter is good for Java based web application.
Please also let me know about any good tool for asp.net web application load/performance testing.
I'm usually sticking to more simple tools like : autobench (http://www.xenoclast.org/autobench/) (which uses httperf) or pylot (http://www.pylot.org/). And very simplest tool is ab2 (or ab). I'm pretty sur you can go with them before investing too much time into that unless you really want to.
Clarification added 4 months ago:
Another tool that can be distributed to test high load/concurreny, Tsung: http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/
I prefer The Grinder for it's flexibility and for the ease of setting up multiple test nodes.
Our guys like JMeter and use it for testing our Java based sites with Flex front ends.
We used to have a traditional "cost a fortune" web site testing/load tool but it couldn't cope when we moved to Flex based interfaces so JMeter came into use.
