ISSN(Online): 2320-9801 ISSN (Print): 2320-9798 International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (An ISO 3297: 2007 Certified Organization) Vol. 3, Issue 10, October 2015 Copyright to IJIRCCE DOI: 10.15680/IJIRCCE.2015. 0310027 9305 Load Testing on Web Application using Automated Testing Tool: Load Complete Neha Thakur, Dr. K.L. Bansal Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India Professor, Department of Computer Science, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India ABSTRACT: Web applications are developed for all type of industries such as e-commerce, travel, biotech, pharmaceutical and other mechanisms. These web applications should be load tested to ensure that they can perform correctly under high load. Load Testing is type of software testing that is used for monitoring performance of web applications under heavy work load. It is used to define the maximum amount of work a system can handle without performance degradation. It design and simulate user traffic which can be used to test application for performance, reliability and scalability. This study focus on the load testing of a web application using load testing tool namely LoadComplete by increasing number of virtual users. KEYWORDS: Load Testing, Web Applications, Load Testing Tool, LoadComplete, Virtual Users. I. INTRODUCTION Use of web applications is increasing day by day; it becomes important to measure the performance of web applications. Many web applications have large amount of traffic of users. Performance testing is non-functional type of testing that is used to determine the performance of system. There are various types of performance testing such as load testing, stress testing, volume testing, endurance testing, spike testing and scalability testing [1]. Load testing is widely used for the analysis of the web applications Large number of users access web applications; to handle such large number of users it is important to monitor the performance of web applications. The process of monitoring and testing performance of web applications under normal and peak load conditions is done by load testing [2]. There are various load testing tools used for monitoring the performance of web applications and we can calculate various performance parameters like response time, page load time and throughput etc. II. LOAD TESTING Load testing is used to find the changes in system performance with increase in load. The goal of load testing is to find out the functional and performance problems of a system under load. Performance problems are the situations where a system suffers from unexpectedly high response time or low throughput. Hundreds and thousands users access web applications concurrently, to assure the quality of these applications load testing is required [3]. A load test measures response times, throughput rates, resource-utilization levels, and identifies application‟s breaking point, assuming that the breaking point occurs below the peak load condition. Here, “below the peak load condition” suggests a testing methodology that falls within the parameters of a load test unlike a stress test in which, system is tested at and beyond peak load. Load testing can identify system lag, page load issues, and anything else that might went wrong when multiple users access an application with sudden traffic.