[Hidden-tech] Stress Testing Web Applications

[Aurangzeb M. Agha]

Hi Ben --

Are you looking to stress test the application or the server 
infrastructure?

For example, is your interest in knowing if Apache (or other web server) 
will stand up to hundreds (thousands?) of simultaneous requests, or if 
your individual software units will stand up pressure?

We recently used The Grinder to load test our web and app servers:

	http://grinder.sourceforge.net/
	(Note: Their web page seems slow today, ironically!)

For app code (Java?), consider Apache's JMeter.  For other languages, I'm 
sorry I can't help out.

I'm *guessing* that if you're looking to verify if a CMS (third party?) 
can handle traffic, you want to shoot for something like The Grinder.

Ping me if you want to discuss further.


Rgs,

Aurangzeb
Supervisor, Web Services
ISO New England


On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Ben Liyanage wrote:

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:Does anyone have any suggestions for software that will perform stress tests
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