The 14th International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB 2026)

The 14th International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB 2026) will take place on 4 May in Florence, Italy. Co-located with the 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2026), the one-day workshop brings together software testing and software performance researchers, practitioners and tool developers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of conducting research on load testing and benchmarking software systems.

Presentation Track: Beyond message injection: advanced load testing capabilities for trading systems with th2-shark

Iosif Itkin, CEO and co-founder, Exactpro 

Iosif Itkin

CEO & Co-Founder

Alyona Bulda Head of Global Exchanges, SVP, Technology, Exactpro 

Alyona Bulda

SVP, Emerging Technologies

As part of the workshop program, Exactpro’s Iosif Itkin and Alyona Bulda will present their co-authored paper, “Beyond message injection: advanced load testing capabilities for trading systems with th2-shark.”

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About Exactpro

Exactpro is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing services for financial sector organisations. Our clients are exchanges, post-trade platform operators, and banks across 20 countries. Our area of expertise comprises protocol-based testing of matching engines, market data, market surveillance, clearing and settlement systems, payments APIs. We help our clients to decrease time to market, maintain regulatory compliance, improve scalability, latency and operational resiliency. Exactpro is involved in a variety of transformation programmes related to large-scale cloud and DLT implementations at systemically important organisations.

Our approaches leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help harness the power of exploratory data analysis and big data analytics to assist in the generation of test ideas and the interpretation of test results, supported by advanced execution capabilities of the th2 frameworks suite.

Founded in 2009, the Exactpro Group is headquartered in the UK and operates delivery centres in Georgia, Sri Lanka, Armenia, and the UK and representative offices in the US, Canada and Italy, and as well as a global distributed network of consultants.

Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of your system, reducing costs, accelerating time to market, while maintaining operational resiliency and regulatory compliance? Visit us at exactpro.com.