Item: LoadComplete
Rating: 9
Author: Yury Vakhatov

Overall Satisfaction with LoadComplete

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use LoadComplete to generate traffic in our applications. The common task is to check how an application works after one or few components were changed - e.g. after migration to a new database or after a new module was connected to the system. Our QA Department does control of performance changes and provides a detailed report to our system analytics and developers.

As a little bonus, although LoadComplete is not a tool for API testing, it can run API calls, and sometimes it is rather helpful for us.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Smart built-in data correlation. Automatically helps to correlate different dynamic parameters like user session ids, authorization tokens, db-identifiers and so on. Works very fast and save your time for test development.
Record & Play feature - LoadComplete can record application servers' metrics like CPU and memory usage.

Cons

Rather slow work with logging, especially on long tests. Test logs can occupy a big memory space.
Coding is not presented in LoadComplete, we can use only predefined features, so we have some limitations in test development.