load test / stress test web services

Question

Hi, Does anyone know of a good tool to test load and stress on webservices? I've been looking at Watir and Selenium, but there more web page centered.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try ab.

Answer 2

Here are some common load testing tools:

• HTTP_Load
• Apache JMeter
• Grinder
• HTTPperf
• AB

Answer 3

I've used openSTA.

This uses a relatively simple script language.

You can easily test web services and write your own scripts.

It allows you to put scripts together in a test in any way you want and configure the number of iterations, the number of users in each iteration, the ramp up time to introduce each new user and the delay between each iteration. Tests can also be scheduled in the future.

It's open source and free.

It produces a number of reports which can be saved to a spreadsheet. We then use a pivot table to easily analyse and graph the results.

Answer 4

I actually like Pylot

It's free, open source, and I've been able to use it for a number of projects.

Answer 5

You should definitly take a look a SoapUI.

Answer 6

I don't think Selenium and Watir were actually designed for load testing. Maybe you should be looking at things like httperf and ab.