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Trend of performance test tools

With the development of the IT industry, more and more new techniques have been involved in the software system, for example, Web2.0 and Ajax, so that performance testing becomes more and more complex and brings more challenges to performance testers.

In the area of performance testing tools, there are three major characteristics:

• More utilities related to performance test have been integrated into test tools, which include test recording, test editing, test execution, test result analysis, problem determination, and so on.

• Customization in test tools becomes more and more popular.

  For various testing purposes, customization of the testing tools always plays an important role in performance testing. The trend for this requirement is that more and more utilities in test tools can be customized for customers' specific requirements, which surely brings more benefits to users.

• The fast development of Open source test tools.

  More and more software engineers dedicate themselves to the open source community, where they are investigating the mechanisms of the test tools in the code level, and collaborating with others. That is the reason why the open source tooling can achieve significant improvement in the future.