Stress Testing Websites...

[Forbairt]

I'm working on a largish website at the moment and I'm wondering what people are using to stress test their websites ? or do ye bother ?

 

[Cormac]

Have you tried running some sort of a Selenium test? This guy looks interesting: Selenium and these two firefox plugins: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=selenium&status=4

 

[Forbairt]

That sounds a bit more like unit testing ? than stress testing or am I wrong ?

I was more thinking along the lines of ...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...5a-062a-439e-a67d-75a89aa36495&displaylang=en

 

[mneylon]

There are load test suites ...

 

[Forbairt]

There are load test suites ...

Able to recommend one or ? (I could go looking ... just hoped someone could say I use this .. its good instead of me going ... grabbing them .. installing .. testing ... testing .. realising its not what I want)

Remember your answer and the results will effect how soon I need to go dedicated

 

[mneylon]

ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool - Apache HTTP Server

 

[wheres me jumpa]

Is the focus on the code/application or the server capabilities?

 

[Forbairt]

Is the focus on the code/application or the server capabilities?

More on the code and the then response times ...

Basically I'd like to install locallly here and test against my own machines ... yes I know real world figures will be different. Shared hosting and so on ... still ...

Idea is to throw 1 user "simulated" at it ... for a minute .. casual browsing .. then to throw 20 ... 50 ... 100
Not so much a unit test to make sure things are working more a ... how sluggish does everything get test.