From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-04-11T22:45:04+09:00
Subject: Re: load testing tool - Please advise?

Mike Stephens wrote:
> Kyle Schmitt wrote:
>> WATiR works by driving a browser, and you just aren't really going to
>> be able to stress test a webapp that way.  
> 
> Could you expand on that? I would have thought using a browser is the 
> very best simulation of a user you could have.

Watir runs a browser and your web server. Both those systems have timeouts and 
latencies that insulate your website from ultra high use.

Another soak test could use Mechanize (IIRC) to beat your server itself up via 
HTTP. And, of course, you can use unit tests to beat up your code...