Steve Young wrote:

Steve,

Have You try Soap UI? I like to use them. Take a look Soap UI Open Source 

Best Regards 

The best tool depends on your needs. But I found this tool Load Test very helpful. 

It provides almost all features JMeter provides. You can simulate complex scenarios, create scripts, generate reports and much more. It's free for unlimited use.

Apache Jmeter is also a goo doption.

Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources, Web dynamic applications. It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, group of servers, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types.

Regards

-PJ-

Jmeter is widely used load testing tool in the market.Apart from this try LoadComplete which is a desktop tool for load, stress, scalability testing of websites and web applications

You can use Jmeter in conjunction with Blazemeter reporting.  This is done by running Taurus that calls a yam file containing your imx file and also calls the Blazemeter reporting tool.  The area thing is that its all FREE!

...talking about JMeter, there's a great demo by Platform Ops Expert Rui Mendes at https://www.outsystems.com/learn/courses/36/webinar-how-to-set-up-a-load-test-in-5-minutes/ 

Blazemeter has a nice chrome plugin to automate testing (for recording your requests that a browser sends out, so it does not record the screen actions like some selenium tools)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blazemeter-the-continuous/mbopgmdnpcbohhpnfglgohlbhfongabi

BlazeMeter | The Continuous Testing Platform

Typical way of working with this tool:

- select a scenario that is important
- record the scenario with the plugin
- save the file to a JMX format (JMETER) (you need to login to Blazemeter, but it is free)
- load the jmx file into JMETER

=> your load test can be configured. e.g. number of threads, ramp up, etc.

Hope this helps.