Flood IO is a load testing platform that executes globally-distributed performance tests from open source tools, including JMeter, 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 and Azure. 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 Flood.io has been discontinued in June 2024.
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 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 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.
See also Load testing tools Performance Engineering JMeter Gatling Selenium Software performance testing Software testing Web server benchmarking
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External links Flood home page