Quick and dirty performance testing of web services - what are my options?

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I have some simple web services, retrieving information from a database and storing info in a database, written in C#, using IIS. My boss has asked that my boss I compile a very quick report on the performance of these web services for tomorrow. As an intern with no experience of this, I am wondering what are my options here ? I have roughly 2 hours to spend testing this.

What I have done :

Created 2 simple web tests with simple use case flows.
Created a load test using a step-load pattern which shows when the application breaks (how many concurrent users results in errors/queries not being returned).

What other important metrics are their to report on ? What are my other options for testing performance here that would be quick, dirty, and most effective ?

Thanks a lot

Srikanth Venugopalan · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-26T16:27:58.670

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Simplest Load testing with options on concurrent requests/threads - I use Apache Bench.

Here is a list of output that Bench gives you, maybe some of these metrics help your case.

edited Feb 26 '13 at 16:27

answered Feb 26 '13 at 16:22

Srikanth Venugopalan

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 26 '13 at 16:25

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A couple places to check are ApacheBench which can tell you how many requests/sec you can handle in addition to other metrics.

Also available is the Microsoft Web Capacity Analysis Tool

answered Feb 26 '13 at 16:25

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Is this appropriate to use with IIS ? – Simon Kiely Feb 26 '13 at 16:26
It should work, following the suggestion from [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7327099/how-to-install-apache-bench-on-windows-7) – Jstone05 Feb 26 '13 at 16:30

Quick and dirty performance testing of web services - what are my options?

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