Flood IO is a load testing platform that executes globally-distributed performance tests from

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

tools, including

JMeter Apache JMeter is an Apache project that can be used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services, with a focus on web applications. JMeter can be used as a unit-test tool for JDBC database connec ...

, Gatling, and Selenium. It also runs test plans written with Ruby JMeter, an open source RubyGem.

Tricentis Flood

Flood is SaaS load testing service that runs existing test scripts across a globally-distributed grid infrastructure. It was built with a shared nothing architecture and integrates with

AWS Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. These cloud computing web services provide di ...

and

Azure Azure may refer to: Colour * Azure (color), a hue of blue ** Azure (heraldry) ** Shades of azure, shades and variations Arts and media * ''Azure'' (Art Farmer and Fritz Pauer album), 1987 * Azure (Gary Peacock and Marilyn Crispell album), 2013 ...

. Users can generate over 1 million globally-distributed requests per second without manually setting up the associated infrastructure or correlating the distributed results. The service provides detailed analysis reports and real-time monitoring. Tricentis makes its first acquisition to help developers build more scalable apps
by Maria Deutscher, Silicon Angle July 27, 2017 Tricentis Acquires Flood IO, Scaling Open Source On-Demand Load Testing for DevOps
by Parker Yates, DevOps.com July 27, 2017 Tricentis acquires load testing provider Flood IO
by Christina Cardoza, SD Times July 27, 2017Automated software testing company Tricentis acquires load-testing platform Flood IO
by Paul Sawers, VenureBeat July 27, 2017Why Tricentis acquired Flood IO
by Christian Hargrave, App Developer Magazine July 28, 2017 In July 2017, Flood IO was acquired by Tricentis and now goes by the name Tricentis Flood

Ruby JMeter

Ruby JMeter is a RubyGem that lets users write test plans for JMeter in any text editor with an expressive

domain-specific language A domain-specific language (DSL) is a computer language specialized to a particular application domain. This is in contrast to a general-purpose language (GPL), which is broadly applicable across domains. There are a wide variety of DSLs, ranging f ...

for communication with JMeter. It also includes API integration with Flood. Ruby JMeter is licensed as open-source software under the MIT License, which means it permits reuse within proprietary software provided that all copies of the licensed software include a copy of the MIT License terms and the copyright notice.

Flood Element

Flood Element is a load generation tool which uses the

Google Chrome Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS ...

web browser to generate load on a web application by spawning thousands of browser instances and running a predefined test script to simulate a series of user interactions. Flood Element test scripts are written in TypeScript and follow a similar syntax to Selenium.

References

{{reflist

External links

Flood home page
Load testing tools Software testing tools

Tricentis Flood

Ruby JMeter

Flood Element

See also

References

External links