From: Fred Wulff <frew@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T07:55:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby replacement for ab?

It seems like it would be fairly easy to set up something with
WWW::Mechanize, although there might be performance problems if you
wanted to use it for stress testing.

-Fred

On 12/21/06, khaines@enigo.com <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>