Communications Test Solutions

Abstract: With the continued tightening of expenses, IT organizations are forced to do more with less. The emergence of open source software has given IT organizations the opportunity to reduce their development cost without sacrificing quality. Software applications such as Apache web server and Open Office productivity package are examples of open source products used by businesses to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) within their organizations.The high cost of performance test automation software is requiring QA professionals to begin to evaluate open source alternatives. The goal of this paper is to explain how to select open source tools, implement a sound performance test strategy, and gain the same benefits as the commercial performance test tools at a fraction of the commercial tools cost.Although there are several open source performance test tools available, the detials in following document is as a result of Evaluation Study. Document explains the most popular open source performance test tools OpenSTA, TestMaker, JMeter and Grinder. Each of these tools provides the functionality necessary to complete a performance, load or stress test