BlazeMeter Introduces SaaS Based Performance Load Testing for Facebook Applications

Facebook (News - Alert) applications are powerful marketing tools and capable of doing cost –effective branding of products. BlazeMeter, provider of self-service, Web load testing JMeter cloud, has expanded their services to include high-volume testing of interactive Facebook applications. With BlazeMeter services, developers making applications on Facebook can now easily and instantly test the performance and scalability of their applications in realistic, load-intensive scenarios.

Testing Facebook applications is very challenging because of their usage by extremely large number of users, who tend to have zero tolerance for slow response or downtime. With BlazeMeter, the time spent on testing ultra-large volume applications can be brought down from days or weeks to minutes. Facebook developers can use BlazeMeter’s performance testing cloud to test the most sophisticated load conditions, complex scripts and rich applications and easily simulate traffic that represents tens of thousands of concurrent users to build high quality, fully- tested Facebook applications.

"When developing applications for Facebook you hope the application will go viral and you also fear it will go viral, so capacity testing is critical," stated Mike Valenty, Technical Director of Double Jump Games, a San Diego start-up in the social game space and makers of iWin Slots. "Waiting to provision dozens of test servers and manage the intricacies of distributing large scale load tests is too costly and simply unrealistic in traditional IT environments. BlazeMeter enabled us to get test results fast and effortlessly."

"When deploying applications for Facebook, it is essential to test in an environment that realistically and accurately simulates the complex extra-large load Facebook provides," said Alon Girmonsky, founder and CEO of BlazeMeter. "Because BlazeMeter is an easy to use SaaS (News - Alert) application, it provides users with the ability to script and test diverse, complicated load scenarios as many times as they need."

According to a press release, developers can run any number of tests according to their needs, using any desired size or configuration. Additionally, the user is provided a dedicated environment per test, providing a cluster of up to 60 servers comprised of dual and quad core servers with up to 15 GB of memory each, and the geo-location of their choice.