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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. JRunner by Joe+Helfrich · · Score: 2, Informative

    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

    1. Re:JRunner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      This could be true, however

      1) It could be possible that the organization might not have the resources to develop (not just money, but expertise) such extensions

      2) The time to develop, test and deploy is probably going to be longer than a buy (or download) and implement. What is the time frame?

      3) The cost to benefit might still be better in buying a commercial package

  2. JMeter by NastyNate · · Score: 2, Informative

    JMeter

  3. you need something like LoadRunner by mozkill · · Score: 3, Informative

    The closest open source testing tool I have found, that resembles Load Runner the most is OpenSTA: http://opensta.org/

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  4. Uhmm, perl? by joto · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think you'll find many open source testing tools. Usually open source software is tested by its users. While that is hopelessly inadequate if you have 5 users, and intend to charge them big bucks, it tends to work well in the open source world.

  5. Rational? by CptChipJew · · Score: 2, Informative

    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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  6. 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.

  7. Some Open Source Testing Tools by pfdietz · · Score: 2, Informative

    Watier

    The Grinder

    Selenium

    Last January there was a workshop on open source web test tools in Austin.

  8. Write it yourself using Perl and IE by cerberusss · · Score: 2, Informative

    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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