Open source Tool for Stress, Load and Performance

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How do you stress test a web application?

Currently I have configured a project with cc.net, watin and nunit and now I want to do stress, load, and performance testing of my .net projects. Any idea which opensource tool should I use or cani achive it with same working tools and if yes then how?

Answer 1

Oh, and if you're looking for 100% open source (though I strongly recommend you use a combination of external load testing and internal testing), Pylot is pretty great too. I find it a bit easier to use than JMeter or OpenSTA.

Answer 2

I used Jmeter to load test my application along with Selenium. I enhanced Jmeter code to call selenium engine to simulate the load test.

Answer 3

The service my company provides is not open source, but it's pretty cool and builds on open source. It's a load testing service that uses real browsers to play back load (as opposed to simulated HTTP/virtual users). We use Selenium as the playback engine, which should be somewhat familiar for WatiN users.

The best part about our service (or the general idea of using a real browser) is that .NET stuff like ViewState is handled automatically. You don't have to do any trickery like parsing the request out with regex's to make it work. Instead, the browser just does what a normal browser does.

I apologize if this post seems too commercial, but since the question is about open source (we leverage open source and have a free trial) and .NET (one of our great features is seamless .NET support) I figured I'd give it a mention.

Good luck!

Answer 4

I would vote for JMeter. Totally free and pretty easy to set up and get started. Here are some links on how to do it Stress testing your application with Jmeter

We also have described the process as to how we are testing , different parameters and metrics.

Answer 5

For web service testing, soap rest or WCF (including WebHttpBinding), try out SOA Cleaner. Can be downloded from:http://xyrow.com. There is a free version, and it doesn't require any installation. It can also perform load tests.

Answer 6

Open STA is the open source de-facto tool for Load Testing.

But it can support only Http protocol.

Regards Kimberly Free LoadRunner Video Tutorials