Open Source Load Testing Tools

A community-developed, free, open source, microservices API automation and load testing framework built using JUnit core runners for Http REST, SOAP, Security, Database, Kafka and much more. Zerocode Open Source enables you to create, change, orchestrate and maintain your automated test cases declaratively with absolute ease. Zerocode makes it easy to create and maintain automated tests with absolute minimum overhead for REST,SOAP, Kafka Real Time Data Streams and much more. It has the best of best ideas and practices from the community to keep it super simple, and the adoption is rapidly growing among the developer/tester community. Zerocode is a modern lightweight, simple and extensible open-source framework for writing test intentions in simple JSON or YAML format that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. Put simply, Zerocode alleviates pain and brings simplicity to modern API automation.

Yandex.Tank is an extensible open-source load testing tool for advanced Linux users which is especially good as a part of an automated load testing suite. Different load generators are supported. Evgeniy Mamchits' phantom is a very fast (100 000+ RPS) shooter written in C++ (default) JMeter is an extendable and widely known one. BFG is a Python-based generator that allows you to write your load scenarios in Python. Experimental Golang generator: pandora. Performance analytics backend service: Overload. Store and analyze your test results online. Several ammo formats are supported like plain URL list or access.log. Test autostop plugin: stop your test when the results have become obvious and save time. Customizable and extendable monitoring that works over SSH.