- http_load
- Simple
- Command line interface
- Support SSL
- Simple url file format
- No script variables/loops
- Grinder
- Jython
- Good docs
- Testing scripts in Jython, so very flexible
- Reports are based on time to execute a task (which may be
a number of url fetches)
- required you setup a multicast ip on load testing machines.
- JMeter
- Java Based
- XML configuration file forces use of GUI test plan tool
- scripting variables?
- Nice graphs
- Load Simulator
- Java Based
- Support SSL
- XML configuration, inflexible and complex
- Welofunc performer
- GUI (and command line interface?)
- Java Based
- Support SSL
- Simple reports
- Has script-recorder (using user's browser)
- Can hand write scripts?
- Script variables/loops?
- Siege
- Command line interface
- Support SSL
- Accept file with URLs list as scenario
- Command line interface
- Output average values only
- No script variables/loops
- License: GPL
- Hammerhead
- Command line interface
- Support SSL
- Support scenario files
- Inconvinient reporting in log files
- Generates unique IPs (necessary?)
- License: gnu public license
- AWBot
- Perl based
- Easy to use
- It seems it doesn't support concurrent users
- Deluge
- Perl based
- Command line interface
- Support SSL
- Configurable ramp-up time
- httperf
- Open Load
- Command line interface
- No SSL support
- accept few input parameters (only host, time to run, client number )
- no developer activity
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Canoo
- Load Testing?
- Cumbersome, XML specification of load test
- OpenSTA