Performance Evaluation and Comparison of Web Application Testing Tools: WAPT Pro and Apache JMeter

Web Applications are widely known as the building blocks of typical service oriented applications. Performance of such an application system is mainly dependent upon the components of web applications. Testing web application is nothing but to find out errors in its content, function, usability, navigability, performance, capacity, and security. Performance testing is used to determine the responsiveness, throughput, reliability and scalability of a system under a given workload. In recent years, various tools and techniques are developed for measurement and evaluation of quality of service of web applications. In this paper, two testing tools WAPT Pro and Apache JMeter are compared and implemented on a same website. The two tools WAPT Pro and Apache JMeter are compared in terms of their different performance metrics (parameters) results. Performance metrics results generated by these performance testing tools have been evaluated and analyzed. The same website has been tested for performance under these performance testing tools then differences in results of various performance metrics like average response time, bandwidth, error rate, throughput, memory and CPU utilization, median, standard deviation etc. are obtained.