We have used webtest in conjunction with The Grinder 3 to perform load/stress tests, with a great deal of success. It wasn't all that pretty and it was fairly manual but it did the job.
The Grinder 3 is a load testing tool that natively supports jython. You can then centrally control many clients running the python script. Basically, I developed a python script to start Ant and run a specific test. I could then control how many times this was run, the ramp-up time, etc that you would normally do when load testing. There was a memory problem with this script which I never fixed and so we instead used the python script to run a .bat file instead (which just ran the ant script). I've send an email to the list with the scripts attached but it is awaiting moderator approval because it's too big. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leif Singer Sent: Monday, 11 August 2008 9:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Webtest] Load/Stress Testing with WebTest Hello, I use WebTest for functional testing and now need something for load testing. It would be great if I could continue to use WebTest for this -- is there a way to achieve this? Specifically, I would like to be able to execute the *same* test in multiple worker threads in parallel. Marc Guillemot hinted at a feature in this space almost a year ago, and all I can find on the web is WebTestParallelInit -- which executes tests in parallel, but only distinct test definitions. Maybe there is a way to create copies of existing tests via Ant to achieve load testing using WebTestParallelInit? Does somebody have any experiences with this? Other alternatives I'm looking at for load tests are JMeter and Selenium. If someone has an opinion on those, you're welcome as well. Thanks in advance Leif _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest This e-mail is sent by Suncorp-Metway Limited ABN 66 010 831 722 or one of its related entities "Suncorp". Suncorp may be contacted at Level 18, 36 Wickham Terrace, Brisbane or on 13 11 55 or at suncorp.com.au. The content of this e-mail is the view of the sender or stated author and does not necessarily reflect the view of Suncorp. The content, including attachments, is a confidential communication between Suncorp and the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of this e-mail, including attachments, is unauthorised and expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please contact the sender immediately and delete the e-mail and any attachments from your system. If this e-mail constitutes a commercial message of a type that you no longer wish to receive please reply to this e-mail by typing Unsubscribe in the subject line. _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest
