Performance & stress testing tool
QALoad is a performance testing tool from Micro Focus can be used to perform repeatable load testing and determine the ultimate performance and potential limits of a system. QALoad was formerly part of Compuware's QA testing toolset. Micro Focus is not promoting this tool any more but are promoting Silk Performer, the load testing tool they acquired from Borland.
QALoad Overview
QALoad allows you to:
- Easily measure an application’s scalability and performance beyond peak load
- Conduct application performance testing to pinpoint the causes of availability problems
QALoad uses a scripting language - EasyScript - to increase the productivity of performance testing specialists. This supports applications (Oracle Forms Server and SAP), distributed technologies (Citrix, Java, .Net, Winsock) and web application protocols (HTTP, SOAP).
Additional QALoad information
QALoad is no longer available for new customers. Micro Focus still provide services for existing QALoad customers for example:
On many programmes and large projects, testing will take up a significant portion of the budget. But it will receive less management attention than an activity of this size warrants.