load test / stress test web services

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Does anyone know of a good tool to test load and stress on webservices? I've been looking at Watir and Selenium, but there more web page centered.

score 24 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 22 '17 at 07:15

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Here are some common load testing tools:

edited Aug 22 '17 at 07:15

halfpastfour.am

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answered Dec 09 '08 at 06:17

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HTTPperf link is broken. – Vaccano Jul 21 '10 at 22:05
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And which ones of them are good, and why? – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Aug 16 '12 at 13:05
only two of these actually support webservices, the rest are for actual websites – specializt Jan 29 '16 at 13:21

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 09 '08 at 18:52

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You should definitly take a look a SoapUI.

answered Dec 09 '08 at 18:52

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Just in case someone may find this question again. SoapUI is pretty nice for load testing web service interfaces. Helped me a lot! – Nils Schmidt Nov 25 '10 at 09:36
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actually, SoapUI is pretty ... limited if it comes to loadtesting - its much more suited towards functional testing, interface testing and the likes. If you want to do LOAD tests you will need LoadUI. Just saying. – specializt Jan 29 '16 at 13:34

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 09 '08 at 18:46

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I actually like Pylot

It's free, open source, and I've been able to use it for a number of projects.

answered Dec 09 '08 at 18:46

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My program (free, open source, supports soap services): https://wuloadtester.codeplex.com – Machinegon Sep 23 '14 at 15:47
The site doesn't exist anymore – vikramaditya234 Mar 07 '17 at 01:07

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 09 '08 at 18:40

I've used openSTA.

This uses a relatively simple script language.

You can easily test web services and write your own scripts.

It allows you to put scripts together in a test in any way you want and configure the number of iterations, the number of users in each iteration, the ramp up time to introduce each new user and the delay between each iteration. Tests can also be scheduled in the future.

It's open source and free.

It produces a number of reports which can be saved to a spreadsheet. We then use a pivot table to easily analyse and graph the results.

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 10 '08 at 20:20

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I don't think Selenium and Watir were actually designed for load testing. Maybe you should be looking at things like httperf and ab.

answered Dec 10 '08 at 20:20

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 25 '12 at 08:47

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I've used WebLOAD before for webservice testing

answered Jul 25 '12 at 08:47

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