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Stress testing executes an aspect of the system to the point of failure highlighting weak points in the system architecture. Load testing executes the system to it's expected utilization. The weak points determined by the test are intended to bring to light software design or hardware capability deficiencies. Stress and Load testing products focus on either network or software performance and may need to be integrated with other test tools such as:

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Software & Server Testing

SmarteSoft Product Details

SmarteSoft Product Details

SmarteLoad uses next-generation testing technology for script generation, transaction measurements and real-time performance analysis. SmarteLoad simulates performance, stress and load volume SimUsers™ on applications to identify performance issues prior to production deployment. SmarteLoad easily transitions the testing project from functional testing with SmarteScript, to the more robust analysis of performance, load and stress on the application under test.

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OpenLoad Product Details

OpenLoad Product Details

OpenLoad™ is the industry’s first easy-to-use and affordable, browser-based, functional and load testing software for web applications. With OpenLoad™, you can verify an applications functionality and accurately emulate the traffic of thousands of users to identify and isolate performance bottlenecks.

 

Network Testing

LANforge Product details

LANforge Product Details

LANforge is perfect for Stress and Load Testing of networks and devices.

LANforge FIRE is used for Traffic Generation and simulates the edge of the network under test. LANforge FIRE is a network traffic generator that supports testing for Ethernet, Wireless, VOIP and custom payloads.

LANforge ICE is used to simulate the core of a network, and will be used to test and verify equipment that communicates through the core. LANforge ICE is able to emulate WAN networks with latency, throughput, and packet degradation.

 

 

 

LANforge Product details

Candela Technologies LANforge provides distributed portable and scalable lab solutions to test any network.

LANforge-FIRE is used for stateful traffic generation of data, voice, and video protocols for performance testing. LANforge-ICE emulates network connections such as T1, DSL, OC3, OC12, Satellite, Dial-Up and other limited speed network links.

LANforge Ice can simulate a multi-router network or act as a bridge adding packet impairments. LANforge-FIRE and LANforge-ICE are two personalities of the same software, so they can be configured to run simultaneously on the same set of hardware or many hardware platforms as may be needed in large lab environments.

The LANforge system is a distributed configuration of a singe manager process, and one or more traffic generator/WAN emulation processes that communicate with the manager locally or remotely through a network interface. If desired all management traffic can be configured out-of-band, where the data-producing ports would be connected to only the device or devices under test.

The LANforge-GUI (graphical user interface) communicates with the LANforge manager, and can be installed on the same device as the manager or connect to the manager over TCP/IP remotely. The LANforge-GUI is written in Java allowing it to be installed on many different types of computers, including Windows, Solaris, and Linux

SmartsSoft Product details

 

The SmarteSoft™ suite consists of the following products:

SmarteQM™ — An integrated QA Test Management System that manages your project's requirements, releases, test cases, issues & defects, and tasks in one unified environment. SmarteQM integrates with SmarteSoft products to provide you a unified control center for management of your test projects.

SmarteScript™ — automated software test tool. Create and execute test scripts for functional and regression testing.

SmarteX™ — Provides a cost-effective way to run test scripts in a test lab environment. It is a test script driver with all the power of SmarteScript™ but excludes test creation.

SmarteTime™ — A network-aware test scheduling tool. Use SmarteTime™ to schedule regression tests on multiple workstations.

SmarteLoad™ — Performance and Load testing tool. Simply the best product on the market.

 

 

 

 

Frequently Asked Questions

I am trying to test a Web Server what type of software should I use?
This depends on the purpose of the test. If you are trying to validate how well a server will handle high volumes of Http requests - a network traffic generator may satisfy your requirements. It can be used to request a large number of pages from the Server. If the purpose is to validate an applications performance on a server or servers you will want software that can simulate many users conducting transactions. You would want to choose a Software Load/Stress testing tool.

Before taking our application live, I want to understand how my server resources will be used when many users are executing my application?
Good application Load and Stress testing tools not only provide statistics on the success of transactions they also incorporate those statistic with statistics gathered on server performance. Most problems have to do with the performance bottlenecks that arise when multiple users need to access a common resource. For example, if your site depends on a single, common database, then the speed of data access could become an issue if your database queries are not efficient. Incorrect use of multithreading in web applications can be another problem. Excessive disk access or memory leaks may also cause problems. Load and Stress testing software that simulates many user transactions can help identify those problems.

I am trying to test a WAN connection what should I use?
It is important to test WAN long lines, satellite, wireless with a network traffic generator that generates stateful network traffic at various speeds, traffic generator require a device to generate traffic at each endpoint. The traffic generator has the ability to monitor packets for throughput and correctness.

I am trying to test a Firewall what should I use?
LANforge has been used for Firewall testing by both makers and end users who wish to validate specifications or test to the customer's desired peak traffic loads. In essence the primary objective is to understand how the Firewall will behave under heavy load. Performance and Stress Testing isolates any scalability or limitation issues of the firewall product and determines the performance limits of the firewall.

What can I use to test the configuration of my network equipment before deployment?
LANforge TCP and UDP Traffic can be used to test network device configuration. For IP based protocols, you can specify the ToS (aka QoS) bits in the IP header. This can be useful for testing QoS settings in the device under test. Also, LANforge supports creation and deletion of 802.1Q VLANs. 802.1Q VLANs speak a slightly different protocol on the ethernet network. This allows LANforge to test VLAN configuration as well.