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Re: What load testing solutions do you use?

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On 4/3/2012 2:19 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> I've been looking for load testing solutions, and there are quite a few choices, many
> are expensive, some seem less than useful. So I'll ask here.
> 
> What have you used in the past for load testing?
> 
> I'm specifically testing Java servlets, which request data from either HTTP XML
> resources, or databases (primarily MySQL).  The difficulty I have is that setting up
> an entire environment for our system is not a trivial task (large amounts of data,
> and very complex system).  I have three kinds of load testing I'd like to perform.
>   1. Failure mode testing.  What happens when the downstream datasources start to
> fail under load, what can be done to make that more graceful.
>   2. Capacity and scalability planing.
>   3. Performance tuning for individual requests.
> 
> 2 and 3 we can glean /some/ useful information from our production environment, but
> we don't want to test failures or cause failures in production, obviously.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel.

To load and stress test web interfaces, about the easiest tool is Microsoft's free
Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT,
<https://www.iis.net/community/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1466>, formerly called the
Web Application Stress Tool).  Another good tool is slamd from www.slamd.com, but
that isn't under active
development anymore.  Apache JMeter was recommended by some others too.  (Note, I
personally don't have experience with these tools.)

-- 
Wayne

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What load testing solutions do you use? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-04-03 11:19 -0700
  Re: What load testing solutions do you use? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-04-03 19:20 -0400
    Re: What load testing solutions do you use? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-04-03 16:41 -0700
      Re: What load testing solutions do you use? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-04-03 19:44 -0400
        Re: What load testing solutions do you use? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-04-03 17:02 -0700
  Re: What load testing solutions do you use? Wayne <nospam@all.invalid> - 2012-04-05 13:38 -0400
  Re: What load testing solutions do you use? Scott Price <scottp@customercentrix.com> - 2012-04-07 10:50 -0700

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