On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Jauder Ho wrote: > > Another application (commercial) is Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner. It > actually records events and plays it back on "load generator" machines. > It's fairly complex, has LOTs of knobs to turn and can load test quite a > bit more than just web apps, I use it to load test/benchmark Oracle 11i > for instance. The software is not cheap but definitely worth looking into > if you are serious about testing. (www.merc-int.com) > > They also sell something called ActiveTest which may be more suited to a > web applications. In this case, they will test your site for you using > their hardware at a colo site.
Before anyone even looks into this, be warned they quoted me £50,000 once for LoadRunner. Needless to say I was flabbergasted (though their software did look kinda cool). -- <!-- Matt --> <:->Get a smart net</:->
