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AppPerfect DevSuite 5.5 Load Tester
This comparison looks at exactly how WebPerformance Trainer™ 2.7 compares with the AppPerfect Load Tester.
| Feature | WPT | AppPerfect Load Tester |
|---|---|---|
| Understands Web Pages | Records and reports statistics for web pagesin the same way a user would view web pages. | Pages are "tasks", which can have sub-urls associated with them. |
| Page Validation | Reports network, protocol, and applicationlevel errors. | HTML validation by DOM elements, text and element count. |
| Session Tracking |
The following session techniques are automatically detected and configured via wizard:
Cookies |
Cookies |
| Think Time | Uses recorded think time for each web page, or canturn off think times for stress testing | Think times not recorded or simulated. |
| Multiple IP Addresses | Each virtual user can come from a different IP address. |
Not supported |
| How many users can your website handle? | Gives a performance rating in terms of simultaneous users calculated from your site's own performance goals. |
Not supported |
| Which web pages are slow? | Sorted web page duration report identifies which pages are slow and under what conditions. | Not supported |
| Authentication | Authentication wizard automatically detects and configures usernames and passwords for form field, NTML (Windows Domain), client certificate, and basic authentication. | Supports form field and basic authentication. |
| Multiple Computers | Any number of computers can be hooked together and automaticalllycontrolled to generate large loads and then collate all statistics. Each test generating computer is monitored and load balanced to insureaccuracy. Note that there is no extra charge for using multiplecomputers to generate more load. | Not supported |
| Server Statistics | Collects memory usage and system load from the target web server. | Memory, CPU network and disk statistics available |
| Multiple Simultaneous Test Cases | Multiple test cases can be combined into a load profile based on percentages, where each casecan be a different percentage of the total load and have other unique settings. For example, 20% of the users could be searching via modems, 20% searching via DSL, 20% making a purchase, etc. | Yes. All groups use same network speed. |
| Custom Graphs | Besides the user capacity and web page duration analysis, WPT supports any number of of custom graphs. Individual reports can be exported as images or spreadsheet data | Multiple graphs and reports available on-screen and for export. |
| Load Balancing | The performance and memory usage of all test computers is monitoredto insure accurate performance measurements. | Not supported |
| Platforms | Windows, Linux, Unix & Solaris (OSX support planned for version 3.0) | Windows Only |