From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-12-22T07:51:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby replacement for ab?

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, hemant wrote:

> On 12/22/06, Mat Schaffer <schapht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>
> Did you see, : http://rfuzz.rubyforge.org/

rfuzz is nice but isn't really what he's asking about.

What he is asking about is something that I have wanted for a long time. 
I want to be able to quickly and easily setup a test script for a site.

Go to a URL.  Follow a link on the page returned.  Maybe pick randomly 
from a few choices of links to follow.  Repeat a few times to simulate 
people clicking around a site.  Go to a page with a form, and fill in form 
fields, etc...

Basically, a DSL to write scripts for driving interactions to a site or 
application that would somewhat simulate what real traffic is expected to 
look like.

That would be dandy.


Kirk Haines