We have been assigned the work to find the best Load Testing tool from Free Tools domain. We also need to evaluate it against some best paid tools. Requirements were:
- Tool should be free and preferably open source
- It should be very stable and mature
- It should be able to generate any amount of load without any software limit. Hardware can be increased as per requirements.
- It should be able to generate the concurrent load in concurrent running threads
- It should support running JUnit test cases out of the box
- It should support recording of Test Cases for UI, which can be played back later with load
- Generated reports should be extensive in information and preferably in format also
- Tool should be in active development
- Out of the box support for various other interfaces will be a plus
- Apache JMeter - Free and Open Source
- Grinder - Free and Open Source
- HP Load Runner - Paid, just to have a good comparison
