Osx. Reference. Tools. Jar. CloudPrint. Bluff: Beautiful graphs in JavaScript. Using free software for HTTP load testing. A good way to see how your Web applications and server will behave under high load is by testing them with a simulated load. We tested several free software tools that do such testing to see which work best for what kinds of sites. If you leave out the load-testing packages that are no longer maintained, non-free, or fail the installation process in some obscure way, you are left with five candidates: curl-loader, httperf, Siege, Tsung, and Apache JMeter.
Daniel Rubio already covered JMeter in detail, so I will not go into it again here, but I will compare it to the others in the final evaluation at the end of the article. curl-loader The purpose of curl-loader is to "deliver a powerful and flexible open source testing solution as a real alternative to Spirent Avalanche and IXIA IxLoad. " It relies on the mature and flexible cURL library to manage requests, authentication, and sessions.
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