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Under any definition, Web 2.0 applications leverage advanced Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies (such as Ajax and Adobe Flex), along with enablers (such as RSS and blogs). From an end-user perspective, these technologies allow a richer, faster, more interactive experience with browser-enabled applications and services. From an enterprise perspective, these RIA technologies help companies deploy new, customer friendly application functionality in less time and at a lower cost.

All of this points to the need for sophisticated tools to test the performance of Web 2.0 applications and services in a pre-production environment. In short, when you’re rolling out these next-generation applications on an e-commerce site or a mission-critical enterprise application platform, you need to be confident that your systems can handle the loads. Yet with conventional performance testing solutions, this is easier said than done. There are many unknowns in stress testing Web 2.0 applications.