Perfecto Mobile, the MobileCloud company that provides Cloud based SaaS services enabling testers and developers to easily access multitude of REAL mobile handsets and tablets connected to LIVE mobile networks spread in different geo-locations to streamline development, testing, support and monitoring processes around Mobile Web and Apps, has made a very important announcement today.

AgileLoad is an enterprise class solution for Load Testing of Web and Mobile Applications designed for use in internal networks or on the ‘Cloud’. In this post I am focusing on the Performance Indicators/Metrics collected during the performance testing of a Web Application.

The initial public release of the Enterprise Edition of StresStimulus was announced in Sept, last year. Enterprise Edition of the tool targets companies requiring complete load testing of high-traffic complex websites in a multi-machine / multi-geography environment. The first release contained the necessary enterprise features with the promise that more features will be packed in with next release of the tool. And here comes the next release of the tool within a quarter, to make the enterprise offering of the tool more accomplished.

Apica, a Stockholm and California based load testing and performance monitoring provider, has introduced ApicaLoadTest.com, a new load testing portal that brings together the tools, premium load generation testing networks, and professional experts to initiate on-demand cloud, mobile, and enterprise load tests for up to 2 million concurrent users.

One of the growing trends within testing software is to embrace cloud and in particular this year has seen growth of new and existing testing software available as testing as a service on the cloud. A new service is in town by name Orasi CloudPerform. Orasi Software, last week announced an affordable cloud-based application performance testing solution for small software development teams.

AgileLoad is an enterprise class solution for Load Testing of Web and Mobile Applications. It fits perfectly into the Agile Development methodology for performance testing of apps hence called AgileLoad. AgileLoad is a Windows application for performance testing of web applications designed for use in internal networks or on the ‘Cloud’. The cloud load generation support provided by the tool help generation of the load from distributed locations to simulate near real scenarios.

SandStorm is a commercial Load and Performance Testing Tool by Impetus Technologies.  Impetus has consolidated its years of Performance Engineering expertise in the form of an easy to use automated tool, StandStorm which offers Cloud based solution in addition to On-Premise solution. With SandStorm users can test their enterprise web, mobile, client-server and cloud applications deployed locally on-premise, data centres, or cloud.

Soon after the acquisition of Fiddler by Telerik, some interesting development has taken place in the community of tools built on top of Fiddler. StresStimulus, one such Fiddler extension used for Load and Stress Testing has announced yesterday that it will develop a standalone version of StresStimulus to give users a choice between Fiddler-integrated or standalone version, at no additional cost and StresStimulus’ free version will stay free forever, as well.

StresStimulus, a load and stress testing tool used for performance testing of websites, web applications, web services, Silverlight, flash and mobile apps, has been on the fast track to growth, adding on features and increasing its customer base which includes Microsoft, Cisco and Fujitsu to name a few. The latest development that we got to hear from StreStimulus beat is the release of Version 2.0, yesterday. The new release marks the introduction of Enterprise version of the tool. The Enterprise edition will target companies requiring complete load testing of high-traffic complex websites in a multi-machine / multi-geography environment.

Application Performance Monitoring(APM) on the cloud is much more complex than on the traditional on-premise enterprise infrastructure. Though the cloud services simplify a lot of things, the underlying complexity and layering introduced due to indirection, add on to the challenges of Cloud Application Performance Monitoring.  Cloud is nothing but a higher level of virtualization which brings with it is own set of issues along with the benefits.