2006-May-17 - Another Day, Another Tool, Another Book |
After finding out at last weeks meeting that we are supposed to be doing Load testing so that we can come up with suitable values that we can recommend that our customers use in the configuration files, I thought I should go off and see what was out there.
OpenSTA seemed to be highly recommended "The best OpenSource tool for general web based load generation is OpenSTA" said Scott Barber.
Downloaded and installed, read through the Help and set things up as I went through it and soon had a script up and running. Not much longer after that and I was using variables inside the script and OpenSTA was very kindly generating the values for me.
Next step was to try it with Virtual Users and that seemed to work though when I upped the value I couldn't seem to be able to login to the application I was testing with the users I'd just created - so now I have to investigate whether it's the test that's at fault or have I found a problem...
A lot of test results were generated, lots of graphs and response time figures and number of failed requests etc etc yadda yadda
If only I knew that they all meant and what I should be measuring and what was significant and what wasn't...
Good thing I have a book on order - Capacity Planning for Web Services: Metrics, Models, and Methods and it had better arrive soon !
So another tool for my equipment drawer and another book for my library.
"Dunno why you want to move into testing " said a programmer last week
"It must be boring doing the same thing day after day after day"
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