Topic awaiting preservation: Ghost Users (Page 1 of 1)

Is there a tutoral to create "Ghost Users" a.k.a. theads you run on another computer to test the quality of your code on a web page? Like a simulation of 100 users hitting a page simultanously? Instead of asking a bunch of people to access your page at once. (I don't know 100 people)



- Face the Present
- AIM: MASKKKK

What you are after is called load testing and it usually is dependant of two separate parts.

1. The script that generates the actual "hits" on the site to be tested.
This part often allow you to create a "macro" that simulates movement on the site, or record one sequence that should be tested.

2. To make this test useful you should also have "listeners" on the webserver that listens to the involved processes and logging what happens. this way you won't only see when it fails, but also where it fails under load.


I tried Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=free+load+testing+tools&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=sv&lr= and found a lot of links to free demos that you can try out.

One interesting here http://www.proxy-sniffer.com/index_en.html that is java-based and allows up to 40 simultaneous users in the demo.

I havn't tested any of these though so I can't really recommend one.
The really good tools here cost a lot of money though.
/Dan

{cell 260}
-{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }-