Open source Stress Test Tool

irlrobins

Hey all,

Anyone know of a good freeware/open source stress tool that would be suitable to test a Java servlet based website? Something that can simulate a number of users on the site simultaneously and preforming different processes.

Cheers

Ginger

Dunno if you can still get WAST or JHammer.

MS produced WAST (Web App stress tool) which you just program the steps and then decide the number of threads to hit the site with .. unfortunately its a great tool for taking down sites as well

I used to have a tool called JHammer but I dont know if that was commerically bought or if one of the devs had it as part of his resource kit

irlrobins

Can't locate any pages refering to JHammer. I'll look into WAST but not sure if it's suitable, it looks more like a brute network traffic test.

Thanks Ginger

Ginger

WAST will stress test a web app, for example, you want to see what its like when 50 users all attempt searches at the same time, or other types of common scenarios..

I am thinking JHammer was a java app one of our devs worked on. Will see if I can find it.

Depends on what type of stress test you are attempting

Also there is WCAT 5.2

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/aff5a41e-26b2-4338-b062-7649a9e14e16.mspx?mfr=true

But its for IIS rather than browsers

Do you want to do browser based stress tests or component stress testing? Might be an idea to write a quick test harness that implements the proceedure and forks a couple of times

sh_o

for just brute force URL calls and to see how your servlet performs and scales, I use apache bench which is very useful.

information

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

irlrobins

i'm looking for something along the lines of Loadrunner