From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-12-23T02:15:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby replacement for ab?

On 12/22/06, Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/22/06, khaines@enigo.com <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Nathan Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Watir (http://wtr.rubyforge.org/) and FireWatir (which uses jSSh) look
> > > promising. Those along with the tools mentioned earlier might be a
> > start.
> >
> > Those actually drive a real browser session, though.  That's not really
> > what I need.
> >
> >
> > Kirk Haines
> >
> >
>
> Um, then what DO you need that Rails unit and integration testing can't
> handle? Any other type of testing *requires* a browser instance.
>
> Jason
>
>

I can't answer Kirk's question, but personally I'm looking for full
stack stress testing.  Mostly so I can give my superiors some evidence
rather than blinding estimating how many concurrent users we can
handle.  Not exactly mission-critical, but warm fuzzies are always
good.
-Mat