%% Last Updated: - [[2021-02-06]] Related: [[Load Testing Tool]] %% | **Tool** | **Protocol?**|**Browser?**|**Written in**|**Scripting Language**|**Open-source?**|**Free distributed testing?**|**SaaS**|**Creator**|**Year Created**|**URL**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| [[LoadRunner]] | ✅|✅[[TruClient]]| ? | GUI, [[Csharp]] | ❌| ❌ | ✅ | ? | 1993 |[Site](https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/loadrunner-professional/overview)| | [[NeoLoad]] | ✅| ✅ [[Tosca]] | ? | GUI, [[JavaScript]] | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ? | 2005| [Site](https://www.neotys.com/neoload/overview)| |[[JMeter]]|✅ | ✅ [[Selenium WebDriver]] | Java | GUI, [[JavaScript]], [[Groovy]], [[Ruby]] | ✅| ✅| [[flood.io]], [[CA BlazeMeter]], [[OctoPerf]], [[Eggplant]] | [[Apache Software Foundation]] | 1998 | [Site](https://jmeter.apache.org/), [repo](https://github.com/apache/jmeter)| |[[Gatling]]| ✅ |❌| [[Java]]|[[Scala]] | ✅ | ❌| [[Gatling Frontline]], [[flood.io]], [[CA BlazeMeter]], [[OctoPerf]]| [[Stéphane Landelle]] ([[Gatling Corp]]) | 2011 |[Site](https://gatling.io/), [repo](https://github.com/gatling/gatling)| [[Silk Performer]] | ✅ | ❌| ? | GUI, [[BDL]] | ❌| ❌| ✅| [[Segue Software]] ([[Micro Focus]]) |1997|[Site](https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/silk-performer/overview)| | [[Rational Performance Tester]]| ✅|❌| ? | GUI, [[Java]] |❌|❌|✅| [[Rational Software]] ([[IBM]])|~2003|[Site](https://www.ibm.com/products/software)| |[[Visual Studio Load Testing]] 💀|✅| ? [[Selenium WebDriver]]? | ? | Many |❌|❌| ✅| [[Microsoft]] | ~2005| [Site](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/)| | [[k6 (tool)]] | ✅| ❌| [[Go]] | [[JavaScript]] | ✅| Somewhat, with [[k6 Operator]] | ✅| [[LoadImpact]] ([[k6 (Company)]]) | 2017 | [Site](https://k6.io), [repo](https://github.com/loadimpact/k6)| | [[Selenium WebDriver]]| ❌| ✅| [[Java]] | [[Java]], [[Python]], [[Csharp]], [[JavaScript]], [[Perl]], [[PHP]]| ✅| ❌| [[flood.io]], [[browserless.io]], [[CA BlazeMeter]], [[LoadView]] | [[Jason Huggins]] ([[Selenium HQ]]) | 2004 | [Site](https://www.selenium.dev/), [repo](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium)| | [[Puppeteer]] | ✅| ✅| [[NodeJS]] | [[TypeScript]] | ✅| ❌| [[flood.io]], [[browserless.io]] | [[Google]] | 2017 | [Site](https://developers.google.com/web/tools/puppeteer/), [repo](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer)| | [[Playwright]] | ✅ | ✅| [[NodeJS]] | [[TypeScript]] | ✅ | ❌ | [[browserless.io]] | [[Microsoft]] | 2020 | [Site](https://playwright.dev/), [repo](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright)| | [[Jest]] | ✅| ✅ | [[JavaScript]] | [[JavaScript]] | ✅ | ❌| ❌| [[Facebook]] | 2014 | [Site](https://jestjs.io/), [repo](https://github.com/facebook/jest)| | [[Cypress]] | ✅| ❌| [[NodeJS]] | [[JavaScript]] | ✅ | ❌| ✅| [[Brian Mann]] ([[Cypress]]) | 2014 | [Site](https://cypress.io), [repo](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress)|