Performance Testing Tools Features

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This section describes the features of various performance Testing tools like
HP-LoadRunner,Compuware-QA Load,IBM-Rational Performance Tester and Borland-Silk Performer

1. HP-LoadRunner
2. Compuware-QA Load
3. IBM-Rational Performance Tester
4. Borland-Silk Performer

1. HP-LoadRunner

Features

 Protocols supported-52 protocols and 35 Multiple protocols
 Scripting Flexibility: Highly flexible in scripting and minimum knowledge can help the developer to improve the scripting.
 More than 80 line graphs can be generated for the reporting. This varies from common line graphs to application specific and environment specific, this gives a high flexibility in analyzing the results.
 Diagnostics tools for J2EE, Oracle, .NET, SAP. Diagnostic tools will help in drilling down the application level bottlenecks.
 Excellent Support document and forums are available.

Comments

 Cost of each virtual user is high

2. Compuware-QA Load

Features

 Protocols supported-15 protocols
 Scripting : Highly Technical skill required for scripting
 More than 20 different types of reports can be generated.

Comments

 Poor Document Support
 Less discussion forums
 Analysis & Report drill down is not possible

3. IBM-Rational Performance Tester

Features

 Protocols supported-30 protocols
 Scripting: Highly flexible in scripting and minimum knowledge to create, comprehend, and edit the script.
 Root Cause Analysis features, helps to identify both the source code and physical application tier that is causing the bottleneck. With the generated UML sequence diagrams you can trace all activity that occurred just prior to the bottleneck to truly enable you to address the root cause of your performance problem.

Comments

 Cost of each virtual user is high
 Poor Document Support

4. Borland-Silk Performer

Features

 Protocols supported-36 protocols.
 Scripting: Extensible, highly portable and easy-to-maintain scripting language (BDL language is used for scripting).
 TrueLog-technology for enabling individual to span distributed machine. They have one Server analysis module (SAM) is a online monitoring. Have another one diagnostic tool Dynatrace (third party) which is same as other diagnostic but only with J2EE.

Comments

 Poor tool support

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