Not sure of the URL, but its RSW software. It costs us something like $35K
for the software, including 7 licenses, so its definitely not cheap. But its
a great web-based testing tool. A lot of people are used to Silk or QA
Partner, but this one is extremely easy to use and learn. While it does
allow for written script testing, it uses a sort of macro record mode to
record every move you make in their internal browser. You can then set up a
databank (a text file) that is used against a load-test, so that it
simulates virtual users. I know we can simulat up to 100 virutal users with
our licenses, which is small potatoes compared to some users of this tool.
One of thier clients simulats 10,000 users. The software has "clients" that
can be run on many computers over a network so you can run it over night,
each computer simulating say 100 users, all hitting the same one site.
Anyways..this is sort of off topic..but if you have any questions, feel free
to email me.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Santosh Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 9:19 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Re: Performance test...
>
>
> That was a simply great thing to do. Where could i get hold
> of this tool.
>
> Santosh
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Duffey, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:11 AM
> Subject: Performance test...
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Well, using a pretty nifty (and very expensive) testing
> tool, I was able
> to
> > do some "minor" testing on a login process of our site. Using Orion,
> Oracle
> > 8i database, and e-load test suite, here are some numbers
> that I got:
> >
> > 25 users - 15 connections in the pool
> >
> > pages per second - 43
> > pages per day - 3.75 million
> > transactions per second - 14.5
> > transactions per day - 1.26 million
> >
> > 25 users - 30 connections in the pool
> >
> > pages per second - 26.4
> > pages per day - 2.28 million
> > transactions per second - 8.81
> > transactions per day - 761333
> >
> > 25 users - 5 connections in the pool
> >
> > pages per second - 51.95
> > pages per day - 4.48 million
> > transactions per second - 17.32
> > transactions per day - 1.49 million
> >
> > The test is simple. It uses the browser built into the e-test suite
> software
> > and "automates" the login process of our site. I ran the test on a
> PIII650,
> > with 512MB RAM. The database is running on a SUN E450 serve
> with 512MB
> RAM.
> > The test simply sends a post submitted form with the login name and
> password
> > to a controller servlet that then hits the database using a
> connection via
> > the pool, and logs in the user. All logins were valid, I
> did not test
> > invalid login names/passwords.
> >
> > Just thought I would share these numbers. Next week I will
> be setting up a
> > two-server farm, using the load-balancer software that
> Orion includes in
> > their download. Each server will be dual PIII550 with 512MB
> RAM and SCSI
> III
> > RAID hd setup (Actually, they are IBM NetFinitiy 4000R
> units). The load
> > balancer will run on a slow PII300 workstation with 128MB
> RAM (I hope this
> > is good enough). They will be failed over and
> load-balanced, and I will
> test
> > the performance on those and post the results here.
> >
> > The only thing I am not sure of is if different testing
> software performs
> > about the same..or are there dramatically different results.
> >
> > If anyone wants me to attempt to test their site, I'll give
> it a go from
> > here..but its over a T1 connection, where as my test is
> done locally on a
> > LAN, so I am sure the results are more skewed.
> >
> >
> >
>
