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Topic: Free load test tool for applications
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dcrusco
New Member
Posts: 5
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-14-2002 09:28 AM
    
Can anybody recommend a freeware load test tool for applications that are not web based?------------------
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bestofme
Member
Posts: 7
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 06-15-2002 12:28 AM
can u please let me know a list of Goood Freeware loadtesting tool for web based applications as well------------------
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imad
Advanced
Posts: 179
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 06-17-2002 08:51 AM
For web you can try
OpenSTA from: http://www.opensta.com/
WAS from http://webtool.rte.microsoft.com/Default.htm
If you have MSDN you can download MACT from MSFT check this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307492 Good Luck
Imad
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coling
Guru
Posts: 264
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-18-2002 02:43 AM
Unfortunately I havent heard of ANY free load testing tools that are not web based solutions. I suspect there are none... 
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Hope this helps. Regards,
Colin.
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AT
New Member
Posts: 1
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 06-18-2002 04:14 AM
Hi guys, Did you try OpenSTA.org. This is a free web application stress and performance testing tool. Might be of some help to you.. Cheers
AT
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dcrusco
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Posts: 5
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-19-2002 06:07 AM
Thanks for your replies. I suspected there may not be any free load test tools for applications that are not web based. Though if anyone knows of any I'm still looking. Thanks. ------------------
[This message has been edited by dcrusco (edited 06-19-2002).]
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webhaskett
Member
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Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 06-21-2002 06:11 PM
Most load test tools I have looked at are essentially protocol recorders with a number of bells and whistles to help with parameterization, server authentication, etc. A web-based protocol recorder is a fairly simple program, but a protocol recorder becomes more complicated for low-level protocols like COM/DCOM, RMI, Winsock ...
I think it is unlikely that you will find anyone that will give away a non-web load test app. given the effort it takes to develop one. Good luck, though.
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Rayr_UK
Advanced Guru
Posts: 408
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 06-24-2002 05:36 AM
What you may want to do is search for some network tools that may be able to simulate, capture that type of traffic. Hopefully there may be a freebie in amongst them. Let us know if you get one  ------------------
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sauli1
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Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 08-09-2002 11:43 AM
In my company (we are not only doing web stuff) I've built a complete performance test system with Perl. The first working system (of course without PDF reporting facilities) was built in a week by one tester that didn't know perl before. That was 2 years ago. Still we don't use any commercial tools for performance testing. And the services that our company provides have proven to be of very high quality in the real life.Perl (with some additional modules) is a perfect language for simulating usage/traffic, measuring performance times, analyzing log files and reporting results. You wanted some free solution for non-web applications. If you have any interface that inputs characters and output characters, Perl is a perfect solution for performance testing of the application. I you don't have any such interface, create one or tell the designers to do it. That's testability. Don't make it too difficult by trying to do performance tests through windows controls if you don't have to. It's often the core/server performance/reliability you want to know, not the client's. Perl is about heavy scripting. But that's the fact also with those very expensive commercial testing tools. The difference is that with Perl the scripting is fun because the language is so powerful. And it's free! You'll get the first results very soon. Of course you have to put more effort if you want realistic usage scenarios and graphical reports like in those commercial testing tools. Very often you don't need all those nice-looking things in the beginning. First you want a way to ensure that the - maybe still very uncomplete - server is somehow stable for some time with some load applied. Please mail me regarding this subject. I'm very eager to discuss my views.
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RSBarber
Moderator
Posts: 1076
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 08-09-2002 12:42 PM
How about either Benchmark Factory or NetBench? Not the most robust options, but either are better than nothing.------------------
Scott Barber
NOBLE(STAR
Sr. Performance Engineer
sbarber@noblestar.com
http://www.noblestar.com
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sauli1
Member
Posts: 16
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 08-14-2002 05:09 AM
At least Benchmark Factory seems to be worth an evaluation. Personally I'm not very interested, because we already have a working system. Also, my personnel prefer learning&knowing Perl instead of some proprietary system. -Sauli
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Sauli Karhu
http://www.saunalahti.fi/sauli1
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bradstor
New Member
Posts: 2
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 08-14-2002 11:15 PM
I looked at the Benchmark Factory's white paper. It doesn't look like you can use ADO with it (ODBC, again, just like Rational).Has anyone used this tool with ADO? ------------------
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jmeedzan
New Member
Posts: 3
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted 03-04-2003 07:50 AM
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Originally posted by dcrusco:
Can anybody recommend a freeware load test tool for applications that are not web based?
Try the WebPartner Test and Performance Center. You can either download the app or use the hosted version. WebPartner's Test and Performance Center™ is an intuitive and easy-to-use Performance Stress Testing and Transaction Diagnostics application that gives users the ability to perform simple or complex, single or multi-step, end-to-end automated transaction testing and load monitoring on all web applications inside or outside of a company’s Internet firewall infrastructure. Users can accumulate performance data, compare statistical data against other companies and their competitors at any time and easily distribute this information to others within their organizations to review via email.
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jstrazzere
Moderator
Posts: 2192
Registered: May 2000
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posted 03-04-2003 08:20 AM
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Originally posted by jmeedzan:
Try the WebPartner Test and Performance Center. You can either download the app or use the hosted version.
Sure, but:
- is it freeware?
- can it test applications that are not web based? ------------------
- Joe (strazzerjATaolDOTcom)
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igglue
Guru
Posts: 352
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 03-06-2003 06:36 AM
Load test is a general term when it comes to non web based solutions. And the solution you recommend is so vast, I can't begin to imagine what to use.GUI? You can't really drive simultaneous gui at once off of a single box. None of the GUI tools expect to have multiple interfaces up at once. If you do, it will be confused, or alt-tabbing and driving it blindly is just too dangerous. Or are you tring to drive a single instance with tons of iterations? Socket based? API based? Granted I was up until 3am testing stuff because someone else in another department dropped the ball and I have to do his job, you guys have to describe your problems better. Often, I think the problem isn't the product or automation tool. It's that the submitter of the request has not bothered to spend time understanding what they need to do. They expect to drop a script and get testing done. This is what the other QA guy did, and the entire Engineering team was working late. This is how QA loose respect. BTW: On a different note, one of the ways we interview people for a job is ask them what they are testing, and get into the details of it. Over 66% of the candidates fail. What we see is that many QA people never even bother to understnad their product, nor how to really test it. Before you start looking at the tool, first make sure you identify how your product works, and what you are really trying to achieve. Iggy ------------------
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