From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T07:19:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby replacement for ab?

On 12/22/06, Mat Schaffer <schapht@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I've been hunting for a way to stress test a web application and
> haven't been terribly satisfied so far.
>
> I'd really love something where I could define a script that
> determined the way an agent would behave.  Basically a set of
> requests where each request had the potential to use information
> contained in the return of a previous request.
>
> My brain is slowly churning around the possibilities of putting
> ruby's benchmark.rb, mechanize, maybe drb to manage multiple test
> hosts....   Some sort of ruby DSL would be sweet.  But before I get
> too ahead of myself: Does anyone here know of a tool does this?
>
> I'm looking at JMeter right now.  It at least allows for assertions
> on HTTP requests as part of an agent script, but I don't see any
> facility to do computations on the returned content from a previous
> request.
>
> Thoughts?  Suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mat
>
>

Did you see, : http://rfuzz.rubyforge.org/

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