Author : Bhoomit Patel, Jay Parikh and Rushabh Shah

Testing automation tools allows testers as well as developers to simply automate the complete process of testing in development of software This paper is mainly focusing on comparing two renowned automated performance testing tools-Apache JMeter and HP LoadRunner on the basis on following criteria: Load Generating Capacity, installation, Download proficiency, Result Reporting, Cost, Technicality of software and Reliability. The primary objective is to study both the performance testing tools and identify which one of them better, more efficient and require lesser resources.

Keywords: Apache JMeter, HP LoadRunner, performance testing tools, SQL, Software Testing, Performance metrics.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.4, No.5 (Oct-2014)