stress-testing

how do I re-duplicate sql server database ?

I would like to stress test my database, which is a hospital patient database. The current one is 2 GB. I would like to have a 100GB database, so I would like do the following: 1) read each patient record 2) create a new, fake patient id, and store back to database 3) repeat until size reaches 100GB What is the easiest way of doing th...

How do I load test Azure Table to 500 IOPS or greater?

I want to test the claim that Microsoft has for Azure Table Storage Partitions. They say that they get 500 IOPS per partition... but I want to see for myself and also look at how the storage client library will react to an overloaded partition. Since I've seen various issues with the servicePointManager and other items regarding this,...

How to stress test comet server?

I would like to test how many connections it can support. I am using orbited, specifically the streaming, not long polling. ...

Know of any Firebird profilers and/or stress tester app's ?

The title pretty much says it all. Im looking for som testing programs for a firebird db server, to stress-test and find bottlenecks. Something like DB-Optimizer, only for firebird would be nice. Can also be separate programs, one for stress-testing and one for profiling. ...

How to stress test a telnet server application?

We have a Unix application that is essentially a glorified telnet server. We have no access to the Unix server, yet we need to do load/stress testing. We really need to be able to simulate a few hundred user sessions logging in and performing certain actions. I thought I could perhaps use a terminal emulator that performs these action...

Detailed, per URL statistics in WCAT

I used to use MS's Homer tool for quick load testing. That tool was great - it had an easy-to-use UI and provided detailed reports on a per URL basis. I'm now switching over to WCAT because Homer is withdrawn and doesn't run on post-Vista versions of windows. The reporting in WCAT seems much weaker than in Homer. Is there a way to get ...

Stress-testing using Cucumber

I'm currently writing integration tests for a RoR REST API using cucumber. I'd also like to stress-test the API and was wondering how I might be able to re-use my cucumber scenarios to do this. I've used JMeter and httperf before for stress-tests, and of course with both tools had to write or record the tests that I wanted to include...

iPhone testing checklists

Hi, I need a checklist for checking iPhone applications. Can anyone help me on this with some usefull links or data? :) ...

Why difference in out when using Jmeter to load test vs HP Load runner ?

Here is the scenario We are load testing a web application. The application is deployed on two VM servers with a a hardware load balancer distributing the load. There are tow tools used here 1. HP Load Runner (an expensive tool). 2. JMeter - free JMeter was used by development team to test for a huge number of users. It also does not...