open source “Performance testing and Load Testing” tools for web application

Question

can any one suggest me best open source "Performance testing and Load Testing" tools for web application performance and load testing. My web app has been developed using PHP and ExtJs. any Ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Apache JMeter is the one I use. It's very flexible, can be scaled to generate huge load if required, and there are "cloud" services to offload the infrastructure requirements if you need that.

Answer 2

I think the best option is to use Taurus - this is an open source framework that allows you to run many load testing tools such as JMeter, Grinder, Gatling, Apache Benchmark and more. The cool thing about Taurus is that you get the functionality of each of these open sources tools and you can easily create the test scenarios using YAML or JSON formats!