how to load test a web app?

Date	2013-11-01 08:03 -0700
From	Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com>
Subject	how to load test a web app?
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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Hi,

I am looking at three Github-like programs (Stash, Gitbucket and Trac) to see if they could be used in our company. I would like to test the reliability and stability of at least one of them (I won't do any tests if some required functionality is missing). 

I am curious whether the program will crash under certain circumstances (e.g. multiple users checking code at *exactly* the same moment). What approach could I follow here? Though this does not *necessarily* have to involve Python, I would prefer this. The way I see it, it would carry out certain common usage patterns many times to simulate many users. I thought about using mechanize/subprocess, the multimechanize package, or the twill package.

Very curious to hear your thoughts about this and I hope this is not too vague. Thank you in advance!

Regards,
Albert-Jan

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