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.
