load-testing

Any good open-source load / stress tools to test EJBs?

There are a number of commercial offerings that I've come across but nothing open-source. I realise that you could do something simiilar with JUnit / JMeter but I'm looking for something a bit more specific. ...

How do I get my Visual Studio Test Suite web test to iterate over my data source?

I have Visual Studio web test attached nicely to a data source, but I need to be able to iterate over each entry in the data source. How should I do this? ...

Cannot store load test results in a TFS 2005 results store

I've setup a results store and when I publish results of a load test, I can't view the published test details. From the test run section of the build report I click on the published build and when I choose View Test Results Details from the Test Runs shortcut menu I get an error that the test results details cannot be viewed because th...

How to stress test a javascript-requiring Web App

Hello, A similar question was already asked ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7492/how-do-you-stress-test-a-web-application), but I'd like to test a web application that prevents double-submits and takes some counter-XSRF actions and therefore REQUIRES JavaScripts to be evaluated. Has anybody done stress tests with web apps that re...

Load testing WCF service (hosted on IIS)

Hi, What tools are there that I can test out a WCF service? I am expecting allot of load so I want to have an idea how much a single server can handle. ...

Creating a Visual Studio Web test to upload a file with a random file name

I have (after quite a bit of work) a web test that will upload a file to my SharePoint document library using a file that is included in the test and DeploymentItem that identifies that file so it can be used in the file upload post parameter. That works great, now ignoring the SharePoint factor for a moment, image that I want to run th...

How should I stress test / load test a client server application?

Hi all I develop a client-server style, database based system and I need to devise a way to stress / load test the system. Customers inevitably want to know such things as: • How many clients can a server support? • How many concurrent searches can a server support? • How much data can we store in the database? • Etc. Key to all thes...

loadtesting asp.net site (postbacks/viewstate)

what is the best way to loadtest an application that relies heavily on posts with viewstate (same posts can't be sent twice, so a simple record / replay won't do) Can I generate the viewstate to be used in in the posts? ...

Can you estimate an application's performance before testing?

It's a tricky question I was asked the other day... We're working on a pretty complex telephony (SIP) application with mixed C++ and PHP code with MySQL databases and several open source components. A telco engineer asked us to estimate the performance of the application (which is not ready yet).. He went like 'well, you know how many p...

JMeter - successfull HTTPS recording?

Greetings, I'm utilizing Jmeter 2.3, which now supports "attempt HTTPS spoofing" under the Proxy Server element. I've tried on several different servers, and have had no success. Has anyone been able to successfully record from an HTTPS source with this setting? Or barring successfully recording, can anyone share a work-around? When...

Http Web Service Load Test

I have a web service I'm trying to load test. I created a program that spawns threads to simulate multiple users connecting to the service and making a request. Each thread makes "some number" of requests before it dies. Each new request is made as soon as it is ready - there is little to no delay between getting a response and making...

How to view load test reports by individual request in Visual Studio Team edition

When performance testing a web site using the Load Web Test of Visual Studio one gets a summary of the results. Useful measures are shown, like the average response time, maximum response time etc. One thing that intrigues me is being able to drill down to specific requests if needed, answering questions like what was the single reques...

Load-testing tool

Hi! I am looking for a load-testing tool which supports more than 20 virtual users in trial version. ...

WCF Fails Under Load - MessageSecurityException

I am load testing my website. The site calls to a WCF service running on the same box using clientCredentialType="Windows". Everything works until I reach a certain load (which is not even very high), then I get the following error: System.ServiceModel.Security.MessageSecurityException: The HTTP request was forbidden with clien...

Tools for Ajax load testing

Hi all: There seems to be a lot of stress/load testing tool that support AJAX. I am wondering how well does these tool implemented. Do they only record http request and replay it? Is it the right way to test AJAX app? How does google test their ajax apps? Any suggestion welcome! ...

Setting up a lab for developers performance testing

Our product earned bad reputation in terms of performance. Well, it's a big enterprise application, 13 years old, that needs a refreshment treat, and specifically a boost in its performance. We decided to address the performance problem strategically in this version. We are evaluating a few options on how to do that. We do have an exp...

Load Testing with AB ... fake failed requests (length)

To do some load testing, for my own curiosity, on my server I ran: ab -kc 50 -t 200 http://localhost/index.php This opens up 50 keep-alive connections for 200 seconds and just slams my server with requests for index.php In my results, I get: Concurrency Level: 50 Time taken for tests: 200.007 seconds Complete requests: 3...

Generating Valid Credit Card Track2 Data for Testing

I have test cards from my payment processor but I do not have enough to do load testing , thus I need to generate card numbers and track data I can use through their test gateway. ...

Load test a .NET desktop client

I need to automate load tests on a .NET desktop application using an automated script, preferably one that is able to record mouse clicks and keyboard entries. I will have about 10 desktops at my disposal and I want to simulate up to 10 users on each box (as an alternative to installing 100 boxes). Are there any tools that can be used...

http load testing tool

I want to record web activity as would be done by a single user and then run one or multiple such simulteanous users (perhaps tweaking some params, such as converting user/password into user1/password, ..., usern/password). Playing with timing would be nice too. ...