01707nam a22001097a 4500100006800000245011900068260003000187300001100217500128200228700005401510856003301564 aArain, Rafaqat HussainaSupervisor Prof. Dr. Zahid Hussain Abro aLoad & Stress Testing of Web Applications Using Apache J-meter & Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool (MS Theses) aNawabshah:bQUEST,c2014. a52p, : aABSTRACT As the IT infrastructure is growing up, every organization is attempting to provide various online services to their employees and other potential users. Organizations try their best to provide timely information to their users through web applications in order to meet with the competent environment. It is observed that as the users of a particular web application exceed the limits then the applications do not respond. efficiently and the users face delays in order to get the particular service. In the peak load conditions, the web applications do not respond well and if that load goes well. above the expected maximum then the application goes under stress and hence provides poor quality of service (QoS)Various performance testing tools are used to test the performance of the web applications. In this research, two performance testing tools are selected and their performance is compared. Apache JMeter and Microsoft web application stress tool are compared in this research. Moreover, five web sites of public sector universities of Sindh are selected to measure their performance through the said performance testing tools. The results of this research are promising and are use all for the concerned IT staff and people who use these web applications.  aDepartment of Information Technology Engineering  uhttps://tinyurl.com/27tf7v2e