I know the topic of load testing has come up quite frequently here on the message board and I think if the process of setting up tests was easier a lot more people would actually do this sort of testing throughout the development process of their applications to early on detect bottlenecks. I'm hoping a few of you will take a look at WebSurge and provide some feedback. There's no documentation currently, but the tool is so easy it really shouldn't need any (hopefully), but docs will be added in the near future. ![]() The current version is in Beta and there are still a few rough edges. It started out with a simple multi-threaded URL processing engine that could be programmatically called with automated URLs and then morphed into a desktop applicaiton that automates the URL capture and management of the requests load processing. Well none of the tools I tried made this process as easy as I'd like it to be.Īs a result I ended up building my own as part of a project I've been on. So many times I just want to capture a few requests and simply fire off a large load at requests onto the captured URLs. I did run into a few standalone applications, but several of them were overly complex and a real pain to set up sessions with. Cloud based solutions also are limited in that they can't access connections behind firewalls or private VPN connections as they need to be publically reachable. There are many cloud based testing solutions available, but most of them are very expensive once you start really hitting your site with real-world traffic loads. There are many Web Stress testing solutions out there today, but recently on a project I was looking for an easy to use and quick to set up solution that also doesn't cost an arm and a leg. You can also manually create requests as plain HTTP headers using text which is easy to automate, or create by hand. The tool provides a built-in capture tool with a number of nice options to capture just the content you're interested in, or you can use Fiddler exports. You can capture HTTP requests - Web browser requests, AJAX, REST and SOAP requests - and play them back under load. ![]() I've just pushed out new product called West Wind WebSurge meant for load testing Web applications of all kinds.
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