> From: "Goeschl Siegfried" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > +) The next step on the testing evolution ladder are load/stress tests - for > webapps I use Microsofts Web Application Stress Tool and openSTA. These are > capture and replay tools and great to hammer (and to kill) a web application > (only if the application does not encode a session id into every URL but uses > cookies instead). If you would like to improve your performance you need to > run a performance profiler while hammering the server - and then analysze the > results of the profiling. If you are carving out a living as consultant you > can go for the quick kill by looking at logging statements and String.concat() > in the server code ... :-)
Great post Siegfried (with thanks to Eric too). I thought it would be good to add a plug for our very own Jakarta JMeter (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/) which is an excellent load testing tool that unlike the others you pointed out is able to execute on non-Windows platforms. There are plenty of other contenders, but I thought an Apache solution might appeal to those that hang out on this list. I am currently in the throws of putting together a load test for a turbine application using JMeter - I selected JMeter over OpenSTA (which came highly recommended) on the basis that Windows won't necessarily be available where the tests will be run. A second reason is that I am more confident that I can if necessary modify the Java based JMeter than the C based OpenSTA. I will certainly try and find some time to have a look at Webtest. Cheers, Scott -- Scott Eade Backstage Technologies Pty. Ltd. http://www.backstagetech.com.au .Mac Chat/AIM: seade at mac dot com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
