Danny R. Faught wrote: > I briefly mentioned how I've been using Watir in a blog post today - "The > Jury’s Still Out on OpenSTA" (http://tejasconsulting.com/blog/?p=74). > > I'd be glad to elaborate on Watir's role in the toolchain, and discuss the > necessity of using a browser-based test tool for single-user performance > testing rather than a load test tool that does browser simulation. I'm > testing a web application that uses Javascript heavily, so measuring the > impact of the Javascript execution time is important. I was using Ruby and > Squid to get low-level single-user inter-page timings, which a Perl script > then used to edit the OpenSTA SCL code. > > Is anyone else using Watir for performance testing? > The code i posted the other day was actually designed to allow Watir to do effective low-level multi-user performance testing. We used it for up to a dozen concurrent users, and using a slightly different code base i had run into a limit of some 30 users.
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