Re: openSTA - WAS RE: [Webtest] load tests with WebTest - Christian Sell - com.canoo.lists.webtest

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From	Sent On	Attachments
Goeschl Siegfried	14 Jan 2003 00:53
Christian Sell	14 Jan 2003 04:38
Bernhard Wagner	14 Jan 2003 05:23
Christian Sell	14 Jan 2003 06:05
Goeschl Siegfried	14 Jan 2003 06:29
Bernhard Wagner	15 Jan 2003 10:34
Jeffrey D. Brekke	15 Jan 2003 10:41
Christian Sell	15 Jan 2003 10:44

Subject:	Re: openSTA - WAS RE: [Webtest] load tests with WebTest
From:	Christian Sell (chri...@netcologne.de)
Date:	01/14/2003 04:38:28 AM
List:	com.canoo.lists.webtest

thats the beauty of HttpUnit/WebTest: I can tell it to "click on the link which includes the String XXX". It will then parse the response and find the appropriate link (including dynamically generated parameters) and create a request from it - just as if a user clicked on it. No issues with session Ids and the like... Only drawback is I have no recording facility

Goeschl Siegfried wrote:

A comment from a Canoo Webtest novice and former openSTA expert

openSTA is a very powerful tool and it allows to test applications with dynamic
URLs, i.e. URLs containing a unique session id. At this point you get stuck with
simple Capture and Replay Tool. You can solve that problem with a little bit of
coding with openSTA while Mega-$$ tools do that magic automatically

Thanks

Siegfried Goeschl sieg...@it20one.at

-----Original Message----- From: Christian Sell [mailto:chri...@netcologne.de] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:46 PM To: webt...@gate.canoo.com Subject: Re: [Webtest] load tests with WebTest

one more word to this, for fairness' sake:

looks like a powerful tool - much more powerful than I require. If I needed all that, and the tool delivers to its promises, it would probably be worth setting up/dedicating a windoze machine

thanks anyway..

Mike Lecza wrote:

Consider taking a look at OpenSTA.org for load testing. Its pretty good for free :-).

Regards

-----Original Message----- From: webt...@gate.canoo.com [mailto:webt...@gate.canoo.com] On Behalf Of Christian Sell Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:46 AM To: webt...@gate.canoo.com Subject: Re: [Webtest] load tests with WebTest

no please dont mention JMeter (admit, I should have done that). I tried it, and it was so pathetic that I went on looking, and ended up with Webtest.

JMeters test scenario setup is extremely clumsy, and the app is unacceptably buggy and slow... sorry to say that..

Torben Tretau wrote:

Hi,

However, I would like to use it not only to test my web pages functionally, but also with respect to throughput and behavior under load. I am therefore thinking of an extension that would allow me to specify the number of concurrent sessions to create, and some load/throughput-based reporting features.

One solution could be to simulate load with JMeter and test in

parallel

with Webtest.. I sometimes patched my Webtest so a timeout could be added for each task to be fulfilled.. But I have not tried the

solution

with JMeter..

Torben