From: george.marrows@... (George Marrows)
Date: 2003-08-07T20:05:22+09:00
Subject: Ruby web testing framework?

I'm doing some performance testing of our web server software. Is
there a Ruby framework for driving such tests .. I couldn't see
anything on RAA.

The features I'm looking for are:

Client 
- replay requests (in the form of URLs and/or POST data)
- replay requests with changed parameters
- record timings (first byte, last byte)

Framework
- specify test runs
  - which client requests, ordering, #times to repeat test
- synchronisation
  - wait for all clients to complete
  - restart server for each test (server process aging problems!)
- gather and process client test results

If there's nothing currently available, I'll see if I can persuade
management to release whatever we develop (assuming we do end up
developing something).

Thanks!

-- George