A COMPARISON OF WEB APPLICATION PERFORMANCE TESTING TOOLS

Hitra rast uporabe spleta in spletnih storitev je povzročila potrebo po vrednotenju in zagotavljanju ustreznih zmogljivosti spletnih aplikacij tako glede odzivnih časov, števila istočasnih uporabnikov, prepustnosti kot porabe virov. V diplomski nalogi smo opisali namen, vrste in cilje testiranja zmogljivosti. Nato smo se osredotočili na nekatera izmed najpogosteje uporabljenih brezplačnih in komercialnih orodij za testiranje zmogljivosti ter jih med seboj primerjali. Proces testiranja zmogljivosti v praksi smo prikazali z uporabo odprtokodnega orodja Apache JMeter in komercialne rešitve HP LoadRunner.The rapid growth of internet use and online services has led to the need for evaluation and provision of appropriate performance of web applications in terms of response times, number of concurrent users, throughput and usage of resources. In this paper we described a purpose, types and goals of performance testing. Further we focused on some of the most widely used free and commercial tools and compared them to each other. The process of performance testing in practice we demonstrated with the use of an open source tool Apache JMeter and a commercial solution HP LoadRunner