load-testing

Crippling Test Environments

We have a web application that is sufficiently complicated that it's hard to accurately simulate production load. One of our coping mechanisms has been to make sure that the hardware in the test environment is always slower that our production hardware, so load and performance problems will be more pronounced. Are other folks out there...

how do I load test a flash application

Does anyone know a good tool (commercial or free) for stress testing flash applications? ...

What is the highest number of threads that is reasonable to simultaneously run in Jmeter?

I want to use the highest possible number of threads (to use less computers) but without making the bottleneck to be in the client. ...

Load Testing a Database attached to a Network storage device

We are looking at stress testing a NAS system for a Database, basically was want to see how much abuse it can take and how much it affects the Database performance. here is what we have planed I have a test Tool I'm building that will kickoff a configurable number of threads that run a sql query (also configurable, and thinking abou...

Load testing tool that can send PUT/DELETE methods

Hi, I am finding load testing tool that can send PUT/DELETE requests. Neither ApacheBench nor JMeter supports these methods. After several hours' googling, I found www.soapui.org that looks good. Do you have any other recommendation? Command line tool like ApacheBench will be better for me. Thanks ...

unable to connect to remote server - SSRS 2008 - webservice

I have an asp.net page that is trying to access a SSRS 2008 ReportServer through the ReportViewer control. The reports are accessed using a proxy account that is setup with 'Browser' role on the server. With a regular report access scenario this setup works fine. but whenever we try to load test this page using 100 virtual users, we star...

Tool for measuring Windows Service processes and used resources

HiI wrote a stress test vor my WCF service, but the service is in the remote machine, Can I measure that windows service used process and other resources? Is there any other tool? ...

ViewState and Web Load Testing

I'm trying to do load testing against an ASP.NET web site and I need to be able to parametertise field value of a page to test different code paths. I had great success with JMeter when load testing a JSP web site before. However, because ASP.NET encodes all form values in the ViewState, changing control values does not really work. I...

VS2008 Load Testing - Page Response Time

Hi. I am running a load test from VS 2008 on my asp.net web application. The thing I notice is that for some of my pages Average Page Time is around 20. Does this mean it takes 20 seconds for the server to render the page before it sends the request? Or is it simply 20 seconds until the whole page is fully loaded on the client's browser...

How can one simulate a web browser, or just the Flash plugin, to load-test a Flash-based web-application?

I guess I don't need the web browser, since network capabilities are built into the stand-alone player. I just need some kind of .NET component which will allow me to programatically start hundreds of flash players (with no UI) playing a specific SWF file for load testing purposes. The SWF file accesses a network service and downloads ...

VSTS 2005 Load Test Console - Total Test Cases Run do not get updated

Hi, I have been using VSTS 2005 for creating Unit Test cases and also to run Load Tests. VSTS Test Edition has a feature where I can use Unit Test created inside Load Test, i.e, I can stimulate multiple users for a created Unit Test to check performance. If I run a load test (which internally is calling a unit test, not a web test) for...

load testing with vs2008, how do I get stats from the system under test?

When running a webtest or load test on a website using VS2008 Test edition how can I get the CPU etc of the webserver? I am sure I am being very slow here but I cannot work out how to set it up! I can remote onto the webserver if that helps any. As a rider question, can I import perfmon stats back into an already-run test? ...

Virtual User concurrency in VSTS 2008 Load Testing.

I am load testing a server that requires that a user not be connected more than once at a time. If I bind the VUsers to real users will this ever occur, or can I be sure that that VUser will not be reused until the previous iteration is complete? ...

Load testing using Visual Studio 2008 : troubles with analyzing results

I use Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite for load testing of my Web-application (it uses ASP.MVC technology). Load pattern:Constant (this means I have constant amount of virtual users all the time). I specify coniguratiton of 1000 users to analyze perfomance of my Web-application in really stress conditions.I run the same load te...

What is the best way to load test a web application running on an IIS 6 server?

I am wanting to load test a web based application that we are hosting on an IIS server (Windows 2003, IIS 6, PHP 5.2.0, MySQL 5.0.22). What are the best tools for : a) load testing b) catching bottlenecks c) catching memory leaks anything else I should be looking for? thanks ------------------------------ UPDATE ---------------------...

How to test a web application for memory leaks?

How do we test a web application for the memory leaks? How much does it contribute to the overall performance of the site? Please suggest any tool which can help us test the web application for memory leaks. ...

Using TypeMock Isolator.Swap.AllInstances<T> in a Visual Studio Load Test?

I have the following tests setup. [TestClass, Isolated] public class TestClass { public TestClass() { } private TestContext testContextInstance; public TestContext TestContext { get { return testContextInstance; } set { testContextInstance = value; } } [ClassInitialize, Isolated] ...

How do you load-test your ASP.NET applications?

I'm not sure where to start when it comes to load-testing ASP.NET applications. My team doesn't use VSTS so that option is out. Does anyone have any good suggestions or experience they can share? ...

Is there a good (free) benchmarking tool for Windows platform?

Is there a good performance tool for benchmarking like Siege for Windows? ...

Performance Testing fundamentals

Hi. I have some basic questions around understanding fundamentals of Performance testing. I know that under various circumstances we might want to do - Stress Testing - Endurance Testing etc. But my main objective here is to ensure that response time is decent from application under a set of load which is towards a higher end or in leas...