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Locust vs Load Impact: What are the differences?

Locust: Define user behaviour with Python code, and swarm your system with millions of simultaneous users. 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; Load Impact: Performance testing platform for developers. It is performance testing platform brings performance testing to the developer’s turf. Developers of all skill levels are able to easily pick up manual testing with it and simply transition to the more modern principles of DevOps and performance testing automation.

Locust and Load Impact can be primarily classified as "Load and Performance Testing" tools.

Some of the features offered by Locust are:

  • Define user behaviour in code
  • Distributed & scalable
  • Proven & battle tested

On the other hand, Load Impact provides the following key features:

  • Server monitoring
  • Test scheduling and automation
  • Performance trending

Locust is an open source tool with 10.9K GitHub stars and 1.57K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Locust's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Load Impact
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      Hackable
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      Supports distributed
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      Open source
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      Easy to use
    • 6
      Easy to setup
    • 4
      Fast
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      Test Anything

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    Cons of Load Impact
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      What is Load Impact?

      It is performance testing platform brings performance testing to the developer’s turf. Developers of all skill levels are able to easily pick up manual testing with it and simply transition to the more modern principles of DevOps and performance testing automation.

      What is 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.

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