We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"The solution is very stable." "The level of support is quite good and the integration is also very flexible." | "The solution is free. You don't need to worry about licensing costs." "The solution offers a lot of plug-ins and a huge continuously developing community that is regularly offering new features and plug-ins." "API testing, Database Testing, and MQ testing can be done with ease." "The ease of use is the solution's most valuable feature. Also, the ability to easily create test cases is also very good. It's easy to just ramp up on the solution." "The most valuable feature for us is the available information on the forums and to be able to discuss and get answers from the people that are involved in using this tool." "JMeter is easy to use for a user who doesn't have too much knowledge of programming or certain languages." "The most valuable feature in JMeter is the Thread Group, which helps us to see whether the performance is good." "The most valuable features are the integration with Jenkins and the reporting." |
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"The test clip should be more user-friendly." "Akamai cloud test integration into our current CI/CD pipelines (i.e.) identify and resolve the issues during the sprint phase which helps in delivering an absolute product and reduces time to market/release." | "The user interface is a little bit tricky." "The solution could use some sort of educational features to offer tips and hints to help users navigate it better. They should improve the manuals and help files." "The tool should be made a bit more robust, and better support should be made available." "In future releases, it would be helpful if there was an integration with ALM Octane." "There is some work to be done with the integration." "Considering the kinds of tests we are performing here, where we launch several tests at the same time as a batch request, JMeter is not the best tool for the job. Those kinds of things could be done easily with other tools, like T6." "Automation is difficult in JMeter." "The interface could be made more user-friendly." |
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Information Not Available | "Free" "I switched to Apache because it is free. Other tools are much too expensive and can cost up to $50,000 a year if you are looking at commercial options." "This is an open-source solution, and there are no fees." "This is an open-source product." "I was using the free version of the software." "In terms of open-source adoption, it is completely free." |
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Ask a question Earn 20 points | Top Answer: When there's a high number of TPS I can achieve more transactions per seconds given the hyper-limitations. Top Answer: This is an open-source product. Top Answer: We have some scenarios for diameter load testing where TPS requirements are very high, 30K or 40K TPS. In the telco area, this is for simulating mobile usage. However, diameter load testing can be… more » |
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Also Known As | |
SOASTA CloudTest | JMeter |
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Akamai | Apache |
Overview | |
Soasta's CloudTest rapidly builds realistic test scenarios using real user data, then tests, analyzes and repairs faster. CloudTest's visual test environment and real-time analytics test your website, mobile app and api backend to give you a streaming view of all your performance data while tests run from back-end systems to front end performance. | Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources, Web dynamic applications. It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, group of servers, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types. |
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Sample Customers | |
Chester Zoo | AOL, Orbitz, Innopath Software, PrepMe, Sapient, Corporate Express Australia, CSIRO, Ephibian, Talis, DATACOM, ALALOOP, eFusion, Panter, Sourcepole, University of Western Cape |
Top Industries | |
Computer Software Company34% Comms Service Provider14% Media Company10% Retailer8% | Financial Services Firm33% Computer Software Company20% University7% Comms Service Provider7% Computer Software Company40% Comms Service Provider18% Financial Services Firm5% Media Company4% |
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No Data Available | Small Business24% Midsize Enterprise24% Large Enterprise53% |
Akamai CloudTest is ranked 12th in Performance Testing Tools with 2 reviews while Apache JMeter is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 15 reviews. Akamai CloudTest is rated 7.6, while Apache JMeter is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Akamai CloudTest writes "Helps to cater to on-demand capacity and load and is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apache JMeter writes "Good performance and easy to configure but could use better UI". Akamai CloudTest is most compared with Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional, BlazeMeter, Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud, Neotys NeoLoad and Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise, whereas Apache JMeter is most compared with Postman, BlazeMeter, Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional, LoadUI Pro and Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise. See our Akamai CloudTest vs. Apache JMeter report.
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