Load testing tools are important to test a specific software's performance in actual or realistic environments. After all, a web application is only as favorable as its use in practical scenarios.

Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

With the release of its new LoadRunner in the Cloud application load testing solution, HP aims to provide the flexibility of software-as-a-service in tools that traditionally entailed substantial ...

WELCOME TO THIS installment of the "Architect's Corner." This month we examine how an enterprise Java™ technology development project can mitigate the risk of not achieving its performance and ...

A public Web site usually represents a considerable investment. Everyone wants it to operate smoothly; there’s a lot of pressure on the development and operations teams to ensure that there won’t be a ...

Load-testing tools can help Web site developers and managers get a good idea of how their sites will perform under virtually generated peak-traffic loads. But these tools arent as useful when a site ...

The reason to load test your client/server application is to detect multi-user interaction errors, right? Wrong! If this is your view of load testing, you are seeing only one dimension of this ...

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We’re now living in a time where users expect as much functionality, reliability and flexibility from Web apps as desktop programs. All our data is slowly but surely moving into the cloud, and ...

More and more applications are being built on web technologies, from familiar web apps and services, to Electron-hosted JavaScript, to a new generation of stand-alone progressive web applications. The ...