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Top Answer:A good monitoring tool, simple to script and easy to configure.
Top Answer:I think the cost is on the higher side when compared to some of the newer tools. You can't really compare this with other tools because some of the newer ones are not as feature-rich and as easy to… more »
Top Answer:In terms of areas of improvement, I would say the Silk Performance Explorer tool, which is used for monitoring and analysis, can be improved because that's where we spend most of our time when we're… more »
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11th
out of 25 in Load Testing Tools
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820
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482
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621
Rating
8.0
24th
out of 25 in Load Testing Tools
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33
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18
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Micro Focus Silk Performer, Silk Performer
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Overview

Test Asset reusability for performance monitoring
Silk Performer can considerably speed up testing cycles by allowing you to reuse your existing functional tests. Use Silk Test® or Selenium for performance testing and synthetic monitoring purposes as well.

Cloud in
Integrated scalability from the Cloud
Silk Performer load testing enables your applications for 'battle readiness' that can withstand massive, global usage. Easily simulate any size peak-load and avoid costly investments in stress testing hardware and setup.

Retina scan
Monitor user experience with advanced diagnostics
Detect, isolate, and resolve performance issues with effective end-to-end diagnostics. Design scripts to uncover errors from the user’s perspective and analyze results with easy to read visual reporting.

Monitor
A leading web support for load and stress testing
Validate performance of your most complex web applications and efficiently create comprehensive tests that reflect real world conditions and usage patterns.

Comprehensive mobile performance testing
Lower the cost and complexity of testing mobile web and mobile native applications at scale. Silk Performer provides a complete set of profiles for all popular mobile devices, application types, and connection speeds.

Spirent CloudStress is a web application that enables you to achieve predictability, resiliency and fault isolation in virtualized infrastructure. At its core, CloudStress is a synthetic workload generator that helps validate Enterprise VMs, VNFs and NFV / Cloud infrastructures by dynamically generating configurable simulated VM, VNFs or container to model various application loads.

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University of Colorado, Medidata, Monash University
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Financial Services Firm24%
Computer Software Company18%
Government9%
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Small Business15%
Midsize Enterprise14%
Large Enterprise71%
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OpenText Silk Performer is ranked 11th in Load Testing Tools with 1 review while Spirent CloudStress is ranked 24th in Load Testing Tools. OpenText Silk Performer is rated 8.0, while Spirent CloudStress is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Silk Performer writes "Scripting and basic test executions are good features; configuring the workload for tests is easy". On the other hand, OpenText Silk Performer is most compared with Apache JMeter and OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, whereas Spirent CloudStress is most compared with .

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