Artillery vs Keysight Eggplant Test

Artillery combines load testing, scalable Playwright end-to-end testing, and production monitoring in one toolkit. It supports load, stress, and soak tests, including distributed runs across AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, and Azure Container Instances. HTTP, WebSocket, and Socket.IO are built in, with other protocols available through plugins. Playwright scripts can run as load tests or synthetic checks; the homepage also describes a Turbo runner beta for splitting large Playwright suites into parallel work. Listed integrations include Datadog, OpenTelemetry, New Relic, Splunk, Honeycomb, AWS CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, CircleCI, and Azure DevOps. Artillery says its typical users include application developers, test and QA engineers, and operations or SRE teams responsible for production backend systems. Cloud reporting is opt-in per test run, while tests run in the user's own environment even when reports are sent to Artillery Cloud. The Free plan lists 30 reports per month; Team costs $199 a month and includes 1,000 reports per month. Continued overages may degrade service or lead to read-only mode.

Keysight Eggplant Test automates end-to-end software testing across web, mobile, APIs, desktop applications and complex systems such as Citrix. It uses image and text recognition to interact with screens without instrumentation or back-end access, and the same tests can run across mobile, web, desktop, mainframe and packaged applications without platform-specific rewrites. Model-based testing generates and adapts tests from application models. Visual regression checks can cover browsers, devices and operating systems from one test definition and handle dynamic content such as dates and animations. API testing models request and response chains across security, reporting and data layers. CI/CD connections include Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions and GitLab, via public APIs and standard connectors. Eggplant Test can operate in isolated or air-gapped networks without external data transfer or cloud connectivity. For aerospace and defense, it produces audit evidence aligned with DO-178C, DO-330, MIL-STD-498 and MIL-STD-882. Keysight offers onboarding and implementation services, plus Eggplant Essentials and Eggplant Expert certification paths. Pricing is on request; a free trial is available, but there is no free plan.