In this blog post we review the latest in the open source load testing scene and come up with a top 4 open-source load testing tools of 2024 list. Read on to see which tools made the cut. Note that this doesn't include functional testing tools like Playwright, Puppeteer, and Selenium which can also be used to run load tests with the help of an orchastration platform like Testable.
Locust.io is a popular Python based open-source load testing tool that allows developers to simulate user traffic on their websites or applications.
Locust comes with several parameters to let you shape the amount of load it produces. It also gives you the ability to customize load shapes, which enables developers to create more realistic test scenarios for many use cases.
In this post, we will explore all of these options and look at some examples using tests run with Locust on the Testable platform.