Software QA and Load Testing Solutions?
tekiegreg asks: "I've been asked by the boss to evaluate Load Testing and QA solutions for use by our company. Google Searches have yielded TestComplete and Mercury's solutions. However prices are very steep. Has anything in the Open Source world even come close to this level of functionality in a testing suite? Searches of Sourceforge and Freshmeat reveal nil. Are there any other solutions that people have tried, out there?"
The only open source solution I'm familiar with is JMeter. I haven't worked with it much, but in the few projects I've used it, it's been helpful. I't part of the Jakarta project. You can find it at http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html
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The closest open source testing tool I have found, that resembles Load Runner the most is OpenSTA: http://opensta.org/
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I use Rational's (IBM) stuff in my work. It's expensive for sites, but I think pretty reasonable if there is only going to be one tester.
Rational Robot does automated testing. I'm pretty sure they have load and performance tools too.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/
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Last January there was a workshop on open source web test tools in Austin.
I've seen a lot of comments mentioning you should write a testing tool yourself. If you decide to do this, maybe this article could be useful; it talks about automating IE using Perl scripts.
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