How easy and convenient is the tool to use, for a developer like myself?Īutomating load tests is becoming more and more of a focus for developers who do load testing, and while there wasn’t time to properly integrate each tool into a CI test suite, the author tried to figure out how well suited a tool is to automated testing by downloading, installing and: running each tool from the command line and via scripted execution. How efficient is the tool at generating traffic and how accurate are its measurements? Here is the full list of tools tested, and what versions we have tested:īasically, this review centers around two things: A colleague working with k6 suggested we’d add a tool built with Rust and thought Drill seemed a good choice, so we added that to the review.

We have left out The Grinder from the review because despite being a competent tool that we like, it doesn’t seem to be actively developed anymore, making it more troublesome to install (it requires old Java versions) and it also doesn’t seem to have many users out there. The list of tools we look at hasn’t changed much. Feel free to read between the lines and be suspicious of any positive things I write about k6 ) For this update, we decided to put everything into one huge article - making it more of a guide for those trying to choose a tool.įirst, a disclaimer: I, the author, have tried to be impartial, but given that I helped create one of the tools in the review (k6), I am bound to have some bias towards that tool. It has been almost three years since we first published our first comparison & benchmark articles that have become very popular, and we thought an update seemed overdue as some tools have changed a lot in the past couple of years.

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