On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:14:05PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > tor 2006-08-17 klockan 11:09 +0200 skrev Benner, Uwe: > > > Can I use the squidclient.exe to simulate concurrent web sessions or > > does anybody know a testing tool (kind of automated web browser)? > > polygraph, httpperf and ab is all examples of load testing tools of > different varieties, all capable of many concurrent sessions. > > polygraph is meant to make a quite realistic simulation of real clients > and servers. > > httpperf is probably the most well known, but it's testing model is not > any where near real life traffic. And only simulates the client side. > > ab is part of Apache, and a very simple load tester. No simulation of > anything resembling real life traffic at all. Also only a client. It's > original purpose was a simple load tester for the Apache web server. something else which can work well is to write scripts using something like WWW::Mechanize -- then you can simulate arbitrary `user journeys' (goak here) through your site. Unfortunately WWW::Mechanize doesn't support multiplexed operation, so you have to fork a bunch of processes to do this, but that's tolerable. -- ``When people are denouncing him for crimes against humanity it often gets overlooked that he gave me a coffee machine.'' (Harry Hutton, on Yasser Arafat)
