stress-testing

How can I use SQLIO Stress Test to define the max capacity of my SQL subsystem ?

I am looking for an article about Disk Subsystem Stress for SQL Server. So I can do better capacity management ! I already know the basis but I am looking for an "how to" for dummies who wants to install and do some reporting and trending using Excel ! Thanks ...

Stress Testing Managed Host with VS 2008

Is it possible to stress test a managed host (not my own machine) using VS 2008? ...

Recommend a book on load-testing an ASP.NET application

I need a book to recommend strategies for load-testing an ASP.NET application with SQL Server backend. Some info that may be useful: how to write a load test plan what perfmon counters to use and typical threshold values finding bottlenecks various load testing tools ...

Regular performance tuning and maintenance

How often do you conduct regular maintenance such as stress test your application and/or tune your database indexes for your applications? E.G., Do you tune (defrag, reorganise or rebuild) your database indexes once a week, every six months or only after large volumes of data have been input and do you stress test your application afte...

Web app stress test

I am using pylot to stress test a web app I created. The test simulates 100 users logging in the app and the test lasts 200 secs. On average, approx. 4800 requests are made to the server and same number of connections to MySql, each of which executes 5 queries so we are talking about 24K queries during the test. The queries are simple a...

Some stress tests on my Iphone app

I ran a few stress tests on my Iphone app. The results are below. I am wondering if I should be concerned and, if so, what I might do about it. I set up a timer to fire once a second. Whenever the timer fired, the app requested some XML data from the server. When the data arrived, the app then parsed the data and redisplayed the aff...

Unable to run WCAT against DotNetNuke with NTLM authentication

I have a ubr file setup to stress test an internal DotNetNuke site with WCAT: transaction { id = "Intranet Home Page"; weight = 1000; cookies{clear = true;} sleep{delay = rand("1","500");} request { url = "/"; statuscode = 401; } request { url = "/"; ...

Stress Test tool for Password Protected Website

We need to run a stress test on a password protection section of a website we host. What tool (paid or free) would be best for us to use for this? We'd like to be able to create several 'scripts' and then have the stress test simulate X number of users. Each script will have us login as a specific user and then click on some links and ...

Stress Test visual studio with multi core cpu

Hi, how i can configure the Test Project of visual studio to use all CPU's core. When i run the test i can see on my performance indicator that only one core is being used (100%) and the rest 7 cores is being unused. I have inside the Test Project a Load Test that is calling a UNitary Test. I had set 200 users to call a single method....

Stress testing for a distributed SOA architecture based System

Hi, We currently have a system with 20 SOA services and having a single master mysql database and 2 slave nodes. We currently have 10 GB of data in the database. We have a requirement in which the data in a table is going to be significantly increased. We want to stress test the system before proceeding with the implementation. What kin...

Ideas on load testing of web application

I would like to setup a performance tests started from our build server on a nightly basis. I have started using OpenSTA to handle test scripts and load generating but OpenSTA can not run load without someone being logged in on the computer. I would rather having it running as a windows service so that the tests will run even if the com...

Is there tools for performance and load testing of REST service?

We have web-application with REST interface. Is there some tools to test it? ...

web application testing framework suggestions

Anyone have good experience with a web application testing framework? We are in process of selecting one for our application written in C#, ASP.NET etc., but the framework can be anything (unless, of course, choosing one written in C# helps somehow). The application is distributed. What we would like (ideally) is: Something that will ...

JMeter and JavaScript

When I make HTTP Request in JMeter I get Response data like "This page uses JavaScript and requires a JavaScript enabled browser." How is it possible to fix this problem. ...

Stress test BlazeDS polling

Hi, I'm looking for some guidance on stress testing BlazeDS polling channels. I've followed this excellent article on using jmeter to test AMF messaging: http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/07/14/performance-testing-a-flex-blazeds-application/ But that's only suitable for non-polling messages. I can't just generate the AMF for all polling mess...

How to stress test a web portal using Selenium and any other open source -Cloud Test?

There is a website portal ,say W1 .Let's say the no. of users accessing are 3000.Can you please give me the detailed framework/design of how this portal can be stress tested remotely in a cloud setup using Selenium RC and/or any other open source.I am not getting any solution. Please help. ...

How to stress test a web portal using Java and any other open source -Cloud Test?

There is a website portal ,say W1 .Let's say the no. of users accessing are 3000.Can you please give me the detailed framework/design of how this portal can be stress tested remotely in a cloud setup using Java and/or any other open source.I am not getting any solution. Please help. ...

How can I do a cloud setup to stress test a website portal?

Can you please give an architectural/design flow of the system which will be able to achieve this purpose? Please note that I am looking to use as less money as possible for this activity...which means I am trying to build the cloud with opensources/servers etc but rying to avoid service providers like Amazon. ...

How would you recommend doing stress testing to an azure cloud service?

How would you recommend doing stress testing to an azure cloud service? ...

What tool(s) for fairly complex stress testing a web application

I'm part of a team developing a new web-based product for our company. Whilst we're pretty positive the application will work perfectly with our expected average of 10-50 concurrent users, we have a requirement to ensure it will continue to work correctly for 1000 concurrent users. Our primary concern is around the loading and displayin...