openSTA - WAS RE: [Webtest] load tests with WebTest

[Christian Sell]

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
> siegfried.goeschl@it20one.at
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Sell [mailto:christian.sell@netcologne.de]
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:46 PM
> To: webtest@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: webtest-admin@gate.canoo.com [mailto:webtest-admin@gate.canoo.com]
>>On Behalf Of Christian Sell
>>Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:46 AM
>>To: webtest@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
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