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Re: Web Application Stress Tools
From: Massimo Fubini <Massimo.Fubini () libero it>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 21:07:21 +0200
There are a lot of tools to do it. They are generally based on recording of a user session (with an http proxy or controlling browser activity) and reproducing it with a lot of simulated user.
"Free" one:1) Microsoft Web Stress Tools. It is a quite simple and useful tool. There is a better and newer version in Visual Studio .NET. You can find info and download it at the url: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/ecommerce/maintain/optimize/d5wast_2.asp 2) IBM Web Performance tools. I really like this tools that is really robust, can simulate a huge number of concurrent users on a small pc and has a strong http session management. It is a no gui application. You can find info and download it at the url:
https://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wptoolsFor a more complete solution for stressing a complex application, analizing how much load it can handle and optimizing you can use tools from mercury interactive (www.mercuryinteractive.com) like Astra quick test or Load Runner. Mercury product are not free (I think you can download a working demo of Astra quick test). You can find other commercial product for stressing web application from Rational (now IBM) and BMC.
Best Regards, Massimo Chris Burton wrote:
Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew of an application that I could use to stress a box. I was going to write my own with Netcat sending custom GETs and timing the response and doing this across several computers. Let me know if anyone has something better for free and is easy to use. -Chris __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
Current thread:
- Web Application Stress Tools Chris Burton (May 29)
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- Re: Web Application Stress Tools Peter Conrad (Jun 01)
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- RE: Web Application Stress Tools Chip Andrews (Jun 01)
- Re: Web Application Stress Tools Ken Anderson (Jun 01)
- RE: Web Application Stress Tools Lluis Mora (Jun 01)
- Re: Web Application Stress Tools Massimo Fubini (Jun 01)
- Re: Web Application Stress Tools Massimo Fubini (Jun 01)
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- Re: Web Application Stress Tools Rahul Chander Kashyap (Jun 01)
- Re: Web Application Stress Tools Gary H. Jones II (Jun 01)
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