All the tools that can help a website or intranet application developer to ensure it won't crash under load.

Why GWT load testing?

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript. GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google Wave and the new version of AdWords. It's open source, completely free, and used by thousands of developers around the world.

GWT provides a significant boost to Ajax development. By using GWT for your Ajax application you get big performance gains for free.

Ajax applications have a big usability jump from traditional web applications and GWT provides tools that give you better Ajax performance for free. By paying attention to the deployment differences between traditional web applications and Ajax applications we can push application performance even further.

Load testing provides insurance that key software programs are robust and stable. Through the practice of modelling expected usage, it can help a technical architecture team validate the application performance prior to going live. Furthermore, this testing ensures that the infrastructure can successfully meet future scalability needs and support business functions.