Performance Testing Tool Comparison

LoadRunner/JMeter can be good options.

LoadRunner:

Advantages:

• Industry standard performance testing tool, provides quick performance feedback
• You can reliably scale up to thousands of users and get accurate results
• Specifically for web services, the response XML can be analysed and a good level of functional validation of response XMLs can be performed

Disadvantage:

• Licensing is costly.

JMeter:

      Advantages:

• Open Source

Disadvantages:

• Results, reports from JMeter are not comparable with the same obtained from LoadRunner.