loadrunner on SWiK

(更新到 2007-6-14) 两个新的系列文章的写作计划——《LoadRunner 没有告诉你的》和《JMeter从入门到精通》 - Jackei 的测试生活与人文社会读本 - 博客园

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:55:54 -0700

SOASTA Raises $6.4M to Test in the Cloud

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:06:45 -0700

Software testing provider SOASTA has closed a $6.4 million Series B financing from Formative Ventures, Canaan Partners and The Entrepreneur’s Fund, bringing the total amount of money it’s raised to $10 million. The three-year-old, 20-person startup based in Mountain View, Calif., hopes its cloud-based approach will shake up the relatively mature testing market.

SOASTA CEO Tom Lounibos says he realized the need for new testing methods while running SaaS provider Dorado. “QA went from 3 to 16 testers because we needed to do so much scripting.” AJAX, SOAP and RESTful APIs had become increasingly difficult to test with open-source tools (just try testing Google Maps), while licensed software like Loadrunner costs too much, he said.

Generating traffic on demand is nothing new: Companies like Gomez and Keynote Systems have offered web stress-testing services for years. But SOASTA wants to offer an entire suite of tools for scripting tests, instrumenting servers, and analyzing problems.

Testing is inherently elastic. One minute, systems are idle; the next, they’re hammering a new application with thousands of transactions a second. “Software is only part of the cost,” said Lounibos. “You need hardware, a development environment, deployment, collection and analysis.” So Lounibos teamed up with OLAP veteran Ken Gardner (now SOASTA’s Executive Chairman) to create an entire test platform in the cloud, including device monitoring and post-test reporting.

The thing about the cloud is that it scales. SOASTA just finished a 100,000-user test for QTRAX using EC2 and is preparing for a million-user test soon. While tests currently have to be scheduled beforehand, the company plans to let developers schedule their own tests, Lounibos said. So we have to ask: Isn’t it dangerous to give testers the keys to what is, effectively, a huge denial-of-service system? And can a huge test eat up the resources of a cloud, making other cloud users suffer?

“We don’t want to overwhelm the cloud, or create the next generation of spam,” said Lounibos.

Still, the potential for mischief is huge, and with more and more “open clouds” emerging, regulation needs to go beyond just terms of service. Companies that run on-demand tools have an obligation to see that those tools aren’t abused. As Lounibos puts it, “It’s imperative for companies like ours to work together not to crash this thing.”

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Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:58:48 -0700

90kts

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:43:51 -0700

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:43:42 -0700

Extract Transaction Data From LoadRunner Analysis

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:23:04 -0700

I had a need to extract transaction response time data from a bunch of LoadRunner Analysis files, and I really didn’t want to do endless cut and paste operations from within the LoadRunner Analysis tool. I created this Python script to extract transaction response time data from the LoadRunner Analysis mdb file and output [...]

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:52:36 -0700

Regular Expressions in LoadRunner

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:59:04 -0700

Dmitry Motevich posted a challenge for getting regular expressions working in LoadRunner. Regular expressions in C isn’t pretty, but here it is:

OpenSTA, the free performance testing tool, versus the big-guns... | testingReflections.com

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:37:11 -0700

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Thu, 29 May 2008 09:07:16 -0700

Regular Expressions in LoadRunner

Fri, 23 May 2008 17:23:26 -0700

Dmitry Motevich posted a challenge for getting regular expressions working in LoadRunner. Regular expressions in C isn’t pretty, but here it is:

Regular Expressions in LoadRunner

Fri, 23 May 2008 13:23:03 -0700

Dmitry Motevich posted a challenge for getting regular expressions working in LoadRunner. Regular expressions in C isn’t pretty, but here it is:

Regular Expressions in LoadRunner

Fri, 23 May 2008 12:23:59 -0700

Dmitry Motevich posted a challenge for getting regular expressions working in LoadRunner. Regular expressions in C isn’t pretty, but here it is:

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Sat, 17 May 2008 10:05:46 -0700

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:10:11 -0700

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:33:48 -0800

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:12:28 -0800

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:12:19 -0800

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:12:20 -0800

PerformanceEngineer.com

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:08:00 -0800

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:23:02 -0700

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:09:23 -0700

Captain LoadTest " automate LoadRunner through NAnt

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:28:03 -0700

Edit LoadRunner scripts in Eclipse | PerformanceEngineer.com

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:34:16 -0700

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:44:16 -0700

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:27:10 -0700

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:56:05 -0700

LR2JM - Convert LoadRunner Scripts to JMeter | PerformanceEngineer.com

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:56:03 -0700

The Black Anvil: Shootout: Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:12:37 -0700

Load Runner vs The Grinder vs Apache JMeter

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:29:05 -0700

Comprehensive comparison of popular load testing tools.