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Topic: Cost Effective Performance Tool
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Londontester
New Member
Posts: 3
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 01-23-2002 04:50 PM
    
I was wondering whether anybody would be able to recommend a Cost effective Performance tool for Multiformats (I.e. Web, Wap, Interactive TV) Or if not a reliable tool for each of these formats.------------------
Stuart McArthur
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zboss
Member
Posts: 57
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 02-01-2002 01:25 PM
How cost effective is it to NOT load test is the real question. Licenses for the Rationl Test Suite with just a few Virtual Testers won't cost you more than $11,000 or so.------------------
zboss
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rmreed
New Member
Posts: 1
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 02-02-2002 05:38 PM
For Web Server Testing only, there is a shareware product called Ready, Aim, Test! http://www.AtlantaDevelopment.com/scrnADGProducts.asp
free 30 day evaluation, (full Purchase price is $99.)------------------
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MarkBailey5012
New Member
Posts: 5
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 02-22-2002 02:57 PM
Please check out WebPartner's Stress Testing. It's web-based and we use our hardware to apply the load so you don't have to buy, configure, and maintain extra hardware. Deploys rapidly. Easy to use. It's good for lean organizations with tight deadlines.
http://www.webpartner.com/st_main.html Good luck with your project! Mark ------------------
WebPartner
Website Application Test & Performance Software
http://www.webpartner.com
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AutoTestGuru
Member
Posts: 70
Registered: May 2001
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posted 02-28-2002 01:48 AM
Unlike a few other SALES people who have posted above, plugging their OWN tools, I would like to add....WAS - Web Application Stress - Microsoft
OpenSTA - Cyrano(deceased but the OpenSTA is still going) I am not a believer in LoadTesting tools. If you can work things out by using simple stats and scaling things up accordingly, you can do a decent job with cheaper tools with the excessive cost of those big guns on the market. Most PerformanceTesting tools are bought by simply being "Scared" into buying them by the vendors. Questions like "What if??" etc. In some cases, when you have paid cash for a Performance tool, have it tell you that your server won't cope, you still have to buy more hardware. There are more ways to Performance Test that to simply buy a Tool that costs (3 arms and 4 legs) for each Virtual user. My opinion.
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"if it works, leave it well alone....if it does not work......ditch it!"
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rstens
Guru
Posts: 321
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 02-28-2002 08:56 AM
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I am not a believer in LoadTesting tools. If you can work things out by using simple stats and scaling things up accordingly, you can do a decent job with cheaper tools with the excessive cost of those big guns on the market. Most PerformanceTesting tools are bought by simply being "Scared" into buying them by the vendors. Questions like "What if??" etc. In some cases, when you have paid cash for a Performance tool, have it tell you that your server won't cope, you still have to buy more hardware. There are more ways to Performance Test that to simply buy a Tool that costs (3 arms and 4 legs) for each Virtual user.
The cheapest and best tool is located between your ears. I often see that people just bring in the tool and forget to think about what they want to achieve. Do loadtest tools have value? I think so, we are not only finding that our servers are undersized but also contention issues with hard- and software and last but not least we are able to verify the business requirements on performance, stability and scalability. Why did we go with the "expensive" solution: because there are no cheap tools that will allow us to test C/S, WEB, PeopleSoft, plain TCP/IP sockets apps. in a similar fashion. "Scared", we are not, aware of risks for our business we are. Another thing about the costs, we invested close to $250,000 in hardware and software and on top of that we invested another $250,000 developing a performance testing approach, doing pilots, developing training materials, developing procedures etc.
This last investment now reaps us huge benefits, because all our tests are very streamlined and we are able to serve a lot of different projects/products. Most tool vendors(and their customers) are completely product focussed, just read some of the messages on this forum. It is up to the customer to think how to use the tool and to determine what his objectives are. ------------------
Roland [This message has been edited by rstens (edited 02-28-2002).]
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ddoane
Member
Posts: 10
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 03-07-2002 08:45 AM
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Originally posted by Londontester:
I was wondering whether anybody would be able to recommend a Cost effective Performance tool for Multiformats (I.e. Web, Wap, Interactive TV) Or if not a reliable tool for each of these formats.
I'd recommend checking out OpenLoad (http://www.opendemand.com/) as it is the only tool that supports native client recording and playback. So it will work on your desktop, WAP enabled device or even WebTV. It's also very affordable. The hosted pricing starts for as little as $149 a test and the product pricing starts for as little as $10k for 250 virtual users, and that includes the hardware. ------------------
OpenDemand Systems, Inc.
744 Broad St., 16th Flr.
Newark, NJ 07102
973.735.0547
973.642.8665 [This message has been edited by ddoane (edited 03-07-2002).]
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