Performance testing using webload

Posted by omrireuter on December 2, 2007 at 8:43pm

hello everyone,

I wanted to update you all on a new company that i have just opened that offers professional support for WebLOAD an excellent load testing tool that has been recently offered as open source.
the idea of Openability is to offer support training and consulting for people that develop web sites and need to stress test their applications but do not want to pay the tens of thousands that commercial tools cost.
i am an ex Radview product and development person and truly believe that WebLOAD with Openability is the best offer for your dollars.

I'm currently working on a starters kit for load testing for drupal using webload. its going to be free on our web site http://www.openability.net

you can find a download of webload at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189476

if any one has questions about load testing, performance testing or webload and openability
I'm here
omri

Comments

using webload to test a drupal site

Posted by robeinat on December 3, 2007 at 9:00pm

hi
i just downloaded webload and tied to run a load test using it on my drupal web site. i was able to run the test but i'm not sure if this test means anything? what do i need to look for? how do i know what's a good test?

thanks for helping
rob

First thanks for downloading

Posted by omrireuter on December 3, 2007 at 9:12pm

First thanks for downloading webload it’s the best stress tool you will find for free or eve in the low thousands.
Building a good and meaningful load test is not that hard. The basic idea is to create a scenario that represents in the most accurate way the behavior of a user.
* make sure you put Sleep times in the script. Users tend read the page as robot tools can run very fast
* put random elements to make sure you create a variety of situations
* try to create a script that will cover as much of your site as possible - or if the site is very big make more the one script for each use case

When you have a script that you are happy with you can test it using one user and then create a load test.
When defining a load test you need first to decide what you are testing for? Memory leaks, peak behavior, maximum loads? When that question is clear you can defined the correct scenario.

Then when you run the test look at the measurements, start with hits per second, round time, response time and see that they behave according to expectations

Take a look at our web site maybe we can help http://www.openability.net

thanks for the guidance. can

Posted by robeinat on December 4, 2007 at 8:07pm

thanks for the guidance.
can you elaborate on the more interesting statistics and what you will conceder to good or fair results

Memory leaks using weblaod.

Posted by abhi_qa on May 7, 2009 at 9:48am

hi... omrireuter,

how do we determine "Memory leaks" using Webload.

Thanks & regards,

Abhishek Agawane

Please help me!

Posted by hoangle on May 22, 2008 at 4:06am

Hello omrireuter,

I want to test performance of a website by use WebLoad. Please show me step by step by how to do.

Thanks in advance,
Hoang Le

Regarding WebLoad

Posted by mdenayath on November 19, 2008 at 5:10am

I have done the webload for my site, but i am not getting how much time its taking to complete the URL's i have used and also the graph also i cant able to recognize what it is generating.

Anyone please help me on this regards,

Mohammed

webload - user relationship module.

Posted by abhi_qa on May 8, 2009 at 7:48am

Hi guys,

Any one load tested user relationship module.. using webload...???

It is basically networking/friends module. how would you go writing script for it.

need help..

Thanks & regards,

Abhishek Agawane

How can i use this

Posted by deepakjhalani.cms on July 2, 2009 at 7:19am

I just downloaded it, i could not be succeed four using this, please help me in steps.

Deepak J

how to install it.

Posted by narmadha.l on January 3, 2012 at 6:49am

i just downloaded it .pls give the detailed steps for installation with screen shots.
and how to create a scripts in this web load tool and.
and pls explain me how to analyze the results for effictive way.
pls let me know.
pls mail me about that information .my mail id is: lilly123narmadha@gmail.com