March 27, 2007 - A New Tool in My Tester's Tool Box - OpenSTA

I'm still trying to catch up by posting about tools that have been in my toolbox for a while, so please bear with me...

Simple load/stress testing is an important task in the test effort for many web sites.

OpenSTA is one of the most widely-used load testing tools.  I've used it for years.  It's free, open source, and has an active user community.

From the web site:

The applications that make up the current OpenSTA toolset were designed to be used by performance testing consultants or other technically proficient individuals.  This means testing is performed using the record and replay metaphor common in most other similar commercially available toolsets.  Recordings are made in the tester's own browser producing simple scripts that can be edited and controlled with a special high level scripting language.  These scripted sessions can then be played back to simulate many users by a high performance load generation engine.  Using this methodology a user can generate realistic heavy loads simulating the activity of hundreds to thousands of virtual users.

Check it out at http://www.opensta.org/

See all the tools in my tool box at:
http://www.sqablogs.com/jstrazzere/55/Tester%26%2339%3Bs+Tool+Box.html

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