Tools to Generate Load Testing Reports for Your Server

All websites are run by client/server applications that have browser clients and web servers. Web test tools are used for performance testing and to maintain the sites. Testing is done to check the interactions between the web services, html pages, Internet connections, encrypted communications, firewalls, and flash, JavaScript, or plug-in applications that are running in the web pages and servers. Tested as well are the different versions of browsers and servers that differ in changing technologies, connection speeds, and multiple protocols and standards. 

Depending on what is tested and the statistical reports needed, Web Test Tools include:

• Load and Performance Testing Tools
• Test Tools for Java
• Tools  for HTML Validators
• Tools for Link Checkers
• Test tools for Link Checkers and Free On-the-Web HTML Validators
• Tools for Validating and Checking using PERL and C Programs
• Test tools for Web Site Management
• Tools for External Site Monitoring Services
• Test Tools for Web Functional/Regression
• Tools to test Web Site Security
• Tools for Analysis Tests

Load and Performance Test Tools can specifically test and report the number of hits per unit time or expected loads on the server, or the kind of performance required under the given load. Performance reports may include the response times of the web server and the database query and results of automation testing.

Here are some commonly used Load and Performance Test Tools you can use to generate load testing reports for your server:

1. LoadStorm is a web-based load testing tool that uses the Amazon Web Services in scaling on demand, with the bandwidth and processing power needed.
2. BrowserMob simulates real browsers hitting a website in huge volumes. It is a self-service, pay-as-you-go, low-cost, on-demand service. Reports provide browser screen shots of errors.
3. Load Impact is a load testing service that simulates as much as 150 users accessing a website. It does load and stress testing and provides access to a network of distributed load generator nodes.
4. Pylot is an open source performance testing tool that generates concurrent http loads. The service in an XML file, defines test cases, specifies requests, identifies body/payload, URL, and confirms verifications. Reports display error reporting and real-time statistics.
5. AppLoader is a load testing application used in testing web applications and applications that can be accessed on a Windows desktop. Reports generate loads seen from the perspective of the end user.
6. fwptt is an open source tool from Bogdan Damian used to load test several web applications. The service is for Windows platforms, capable of handling Ajax, and generates tests in C#.
7. JCrawler is an open sourced stress-testing tool with exploratory or crawling features used in testing web applications. The JCrawler starts from a set of URLs that go through or crawl to any URL and generates loads on the web application.
8. Performer is a  testing tool used to assess the scalability and performance of web applications. Statistics on the activities of each virtual client are logged and collected.

RealityLoad XF On-Demand Load testing is a load testing service with more than 15,000 end-user desktops around the world. Distributed load tests that accurately reproduce the latency characteristics and network, with real users in a live environment are provided.

As needed, sources for automation testing, and quality assurance testing can be found on the web.