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About The main goal for Karma is to bring a productive testing environment to developers. The environment being one where they don't have to set up loads of configurations, but rather a place where developers can just write the code and get instant feedback from their tests. Because getting quick feedback is what makes you productive and creative. Test your code on real browsers and real devices such as phones, tablets or on a headless PhantomJS instance. Control the whole workflow from the command line or your IDE - just save a file and Karma will run all the tests. Karma also watches all the files, specified within the configuration file, and whenever any file changes, it triggers the test run by sending a signal to the testing server to inform all of the captured browsers to run the test code again. Each browser then loads the source files inside an IFrame, executes the tests and reports the results back to the server.	About StresStimulus is a load testing tool for websites, mobile and Enterprise apps. It determines the web performance and scalability of your application under the rigors of heavy traffic load. Hundreds or thousands of physical users are realistically emulated through on-premise load generators or in a cloud testing environment. At the same time, server monitoring information is collected in real-time to pinpoint application performance bottlenecks and isolate web speed issues. StresStimulus makes website stress testing and mobile performance testing super easy thanks to its end-to-end test wizard that walks you through recording, configuring and executing tests. It also saves time on mobile app load testing due to its out-of-the-box support for native app frameworks. What sets StresStimulus apart from other performance testing tools is its support for complex websites and apps combined with its competitive pricing.
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Audience Developers in need of a Software Testing solution	Audience Anyone looking for a load testing tool for websites, mobile and enterprise apps
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	Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Excellent replacement for deprecated Visual Studio web performance testing tool. Easy to learn, more so if the user has Visual Studio and Loadrunner testing experience. Build in test results analysis and comparisons between test results feature which is very useful for regression or change management tests. Build in automatic dynamic parameter detection and correlation tool which works very well. Fiddler integrated. Very good automated reports with the ability to share reports to groups or emailing reports automatically. Command line interface makes it easy to use in CI/CD pipelines as automated tests. API testing features built in. Integrates with Dynatrace. Very good support and listens to customers requests for new feature requests. Cons A few UX limitations at first which was upgraded on request.
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Company Information Karma karma-runner.github.io/0.13/index.html	Company Information Stimulus Technology Founded: 2006 United States www.stresstimulus.com
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Categories Software Testing Supported Unit Testing Supported	Categories Load Testing Supported Software Testing Supported

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