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Performance testing with Flood increases customer satisfaction and confidence in your production apps and reduces business risk. | It is a developer centric open source load testing tool for testing the performance of your backend infrastructure. It’s built with Go and JavaScript to integrate well into your development workflow. |
Browser-based load testing; JMeter load testing; Gatling load testing; Detailed reporting; on-premise; multi-cloud; AWS load testing | Written in Go and JavaScript, built to integrate well into the modern developer workflow and automation pipelines; Primarily for load testing, it also works for functional testing of APIs and microservices with its powerful JS ES6 based scripting API; Straightforward CLI, sharing many UX aspects with the DevOps tools you already use |
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What are some alternatives to Flood IO, k6?
Locust
Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. Intended for load testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle.
Gatling
Gatling is a highly capable load testing tool. It is designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance. Out of the box, Gatling comes with excellent support of the HTTP protocol that makes it a tool of choice for load testing any HTTP server. As the core engine is actually protocol agnostic, it is perfectly possible to implement support for other protocols. For example, Gatling currently also ships JMS support.
Loader.io
Loader.io is a free load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps/apis with thousands of concurrent connections.
BlazeMeter
Simulate any user scenario for webapps, websites, mobile apps or web services. 100% Apache JMeter compatible. Scalable from 1 to 1,000,000+ concurrent users.<br>
Apache JMeter
It is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.
RedLine13
It is a load testing platform that brings the low cost power of the cloud to JMeter and other open source load testing tools.
AWS Device Farm
Run tests across a large selection of physical devices in parallel from various manufacturers with varying hardware, OS versions and form factors.
Blitz
Build bulletproof, scalable solutions with Blitz - a simple and fun service for load testing web apps and APIs in the cloud. Blitz offers powerful yet simple capabilities including continuous monitoring, performance testing and remediation. Blitz enables you to instantly burst up to 50,000 concurrent users against your app in seconds from multiple points of presence around the world.
LoadNinja
It is a cloud-based platform for engineers and performance professionals who load test web applications. It makes load testing simple and fast. Test your website and web apps on real browsers, in the cloud, without the need for dynamic correlation.
Artillery
It is a modern, open-source, powerful & easy-to-use performance testing toolkit. Use it to ship scalable applications that stay performant & resilient under high load. It prioritizes developer productivity and happiness and follows the “batteries-included” philosophy.
