Hello list, first to present myself: I'm the lead developer of the open source projects HtmlUnit (http://htmlunit.sf.net) and WebTest (http://webtest.canoo.com). I'm not a JMeter or load testing expert, so please forgive my ignorance.
What about a combination JMeter / WebTest (or HtmlUnit)? An HtmlUnit user has for some months reported that he used HtmlUnit for load testing his AJAX application and that everything worked smoothly simulating 350 clients allocating only 512 MB to the JVM. Personally I haven't tested with so much parallel clients, but my own tests don't contradict his point. This seems to indicate that HtmlUnit is lightweight enough to produce load. Additionally is HtmlUnit a "browser". It is a special kind of browser, but it is a browser, that tries to behave like FF or IE depending on what you configure. Particularly it has a pretty good JavaScript support. As far as I know all (open source as well as commercial) load testing tools have problems with AJAX because they aren't browsers. This seems to indicate that HtmlUnit would be currently the only solution allowing to really produce load as well as to behave like "normal" browsers on AJAX applications. Finally, what is possible with HtmlUnit "pure" is probably possible with WebTest (which itself uses HtmlUnit). The benefit is that it would allow to specify tests at an higher abstraction level and, in the case of functional tests, produces great reports. Now my questions: - does JMeter's architecture allow to plug something like WebTest or HtmlUnit as "execution engine"? - is there interest in JMeter community for such a combination? Happy testing, Marc. -- Blog: http://mguillem.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
