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The importance of Load Testing

NeoLoad is a software for testing Web applications under increasing loads. Load testing allows you to test a Web application's reliability prior to its production phase.

Easy to use, powerful and cost effective, NeoLoad is designed to generate heavy and realistic loads on your Web applications, allowing you to retrieve statistics on the server's performance and to pinpoint any errors or performance problems.
Thanks to its monitoring modules, NeoLoad identifies performance bottlenecks, allowing you to correct them prior to production

NeoLoad lets you test all Web infrastructures, including AJAX, SOAP, Flex, Oracle Forms, Silverlight, Microsoft .NET-ASP, J2EE, PHP, CGI... not forgetting ERP, ECM or CRM applications such as Siebel, SAP Web, Oracle e-business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Hyperion, Documentum EMC2 or Business Objects.

How it works

NeoLoad creates virtual users, with totally realistic behaviors, capable of browsing various Web pages and filling in forms with dynamic values. Different user profiles, each with its own load variation (constant, ramp-up, peak), may be run simultaneously in order to provide a measured increase in the load.

Once the test scenario has been recorded, you can start your test, monitoring your application and infrastructure’s behavior in real time.

   

As soon as the test ends, NeoLoad highlights the most significant test results and any errors, thus allowing you to focus immediately on the points in your application that require attention.

During a test, NeoLoad collects information on the server infrastructure via its monitoring modules to pinpoint the causes of performance issues. Our monitoring modules' design, based on industry standards, allows monitoring to be carried out remotely and non-intrusively. Each module is shipped preconfigured with the appropriate performance counters for your system. NeoLoad provides values for alert thresholds -derived from industry best practices- to trigger appropriate alerts.

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