Load testing is a process of putting pre-determined load on an application, a web site, or a service and measuring its response. Load testing will help you understand how your system behaves under different conditions and identify performance bottlenecks. For example, it may help you optimize your Internet retail application to sustain increased visits after a promotional campaign.

The HTTP Load Testing modules that were part of some earlier TestComplete versions are no longer available. SmartBear offers a separate product for load testing - LoadComplete. It supports a number of improvements in comparison with the TestComplete Load Testing modules: easier test creation, more realistic test simulation, “quality of service” settings, built-in support for Rich Internet Applications (Ajax, Flash, Flex, Silverlight), using Amazon EC2 cloud machines, distributed testing, easier request parameterization, built-in test data generators and more. You can easily record LoadComplete scenarios based on your TestComplete functional web tests and use these scenarios to create load tests for your web application. See Integration With LoadComplete.

LoadComplete licenses limit the number of virtual users that can be simulated concurrently. You can purchase licenses for 250, 500, 1000 virtual users and even more, up to 10,000.

Request a free trial license of LoadComplete to check how it works for you:

http://smartbear.com/product/loadcomplete/free-trial/

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