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Software QA and Load Testing Solutions?

Posted by Cliff on from the stress-it-until-it-breaks dept.

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?"

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  1. Do it yourself by abradsn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have 5 years of experience in this field.

    Get it over with and just write the software yourself. Most of the work is custom software anyways.

    Log everything to an xml file and or a database.

    Write your own front end to the whole test harness.

    There really isn't very much good help available.

    Even though nunit is good for unit tests, there is nothing that stops you from implementing load/stress and performance tests with it.

    You can even use the nunit user interface as a testharness until you get your own written.

    In the end you'll spend some time and money on your own automation, but that is what you would have ended up doing down the road anyways.