From: Nathan Smith <nlloyds@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T12:56:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby replacement for ab?

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

>
> Yeah, possibly.  Mechanize or hpricot could be part of a solution, but the
> real challenge is in devising a DSL that makes it _easy_ for me to, for
> example:
>
> 1) Hit the homepage.
>
> 2) Go to a random URL on the site.
>     Repeat 2-5 times.
>
> 3) Go to the fund information page.
>
> 4  Click through to the distributions display.
>
> 5)  Randomly select 1-4 fund information links.
>
> Repeat 100000 times, collecting timing information, failure information,
> etc....
>
>
>
> Then, if I can run that on two or three machines at the same time, and can
> collate their logs and run an analysis on the collated logs, I'd be a
> happy fellow.
>
> Another thing that I'd love to be able to do is to run something like the
> above set of actions, but do it more slowly, with pauses between each
> request, so that the site may only get, on average, one request a second
> but I can let it run for days.
>
> I have encountered failures on occasion that didn't seem to happen as a
> result of short term heavy loading, but more as a result of steady hits
> over a longer period of time.
>
> I'd like to be able to easily simulate that usage pattern in a development
> environment.
>
>
> Kirk Haines
>
>
>
Watir (http://wtr.rubyforge.org/) and FireWatir (which uses jSSh) look
promising. Those along with the tools mentioned earlier might be a start.

Nate

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