Load
Testing
Load testing is a technique that
allows you to simulate traffic on your server. If you run a mission-critical
system, then load testing will help you spot bottlenecks in your system
under high stress scenarios, before they happen in the production
environment. You can view your system as it handles thousands of concurrent
users, before you launch it for the entire world to visit! IT projects are
very expensive, so load testing will help you avoid wasting money, by
ensuring that your system will cope.
Portent provides a family of
software options that carry out load testing simulations on your server.
Their software is easy to us, comes with an attractive GUI, and is cost
effective. The various features allow you to simulate HTTP Gets, CGI
scripting, heavy database traffic and queries, among many other features.
The Portent Classic version
costs $80, while the Supreme version costs $280. There are other versions
available, but the cost is not advertised. Perhaps they are afraid of
frightening the customers away! Pricing is acquired by e-mailing their sales
team direct.
Their Web site contains detailed
information about their products, and better still, they provide on-line
software demonstrations that you can run in your browser, there is a
downloadable version also. The simulation contains attractive and detailed
screenshots, with plenty of information, giving detailed accounts about the
function of each screen.
Visit their website at
www.loadtesting.com |
