th2-Loader (aka th2-shark) is a high-performance load and simulation platform for mission-critical financial market infrastructures. Built for environments where microseconds matter and failures have a systemic effect, Loader goes far beyond traditional performance testing tools. It enables organisations to detect capacity, resilience, correctness and recovery defects in trading, market data distribution, post-trade and web-based systems – as well as across systems – under realistic and extreme conditions and complex load scenarios and scenarios.
Testing modes:
- load generation via multiple protocols
- client and server simulation
- event-driven load test scenarios
- post-execution data analysis and reconciliation
- test or production data replay
- functional testing
Advanced Load Control & Fault Testing
- Platform-agnostic within the financial domain and applicable to other domains, following additional customisation
- Thousands of simultaneous client connections or server simulation, high-rate transaction stress, bandwidth and latency measurement
- Configurable load shapes and messages mix per connection or group
- Dynamic on-the-fly load changes during execution
- Support for failover and fault-tolerance testing
- Built-in reconciliation features across multiple data streams and systems
- Support of a variety of financial and general protocols and APIs
- GUI testing capabilities
- Real-time exposure of general and custom metrics into a monitoring solution
- Dynamic reporting capabilities for internal and regulatory compliance purposes
Loader enables advanced capabilities for generating enterprise-grade loads alongside easy adoption across non-functional testing teams. It can be on-prem- or cloud-hosted and does not require high-end hardware for massive load testing.
Enterprise-grade load, performance and resilience testing for financial systems