[Tutor] load test a web application?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 01/11/2013 09:51, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking at three Github-like programs (Stash, Gitbucket and Trac) to see if they could be used in our company. I would like to test the reliability and stability of at least one of them (I won't do any tests if some required functionality is missing).
>
> I am curious whether the program will crash under certain circumstances (e.g. multiple users checking code at *exactly* the same moment). What approach could I follow here? Though this does not *necessarily* have to involve Python, I would prefer this. The way I see it, it would carry out certain common usage patterns many usage patterns to simulate many users. I thought about using mechanize/subprocess, the multimechanize package, or the twill package.
>
> Very curious to hear your thoughts about this and I hope this is not too vague. Thank you in advance!
>
> Regards,
> Albert-Jan
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It's my belief that this request is way beyond the remit of a tutor 
mailing list.  The main mailing list is one obvious place to go, but 
maybe better yet would be the specialist testing list.  This is 
available at gmane.comp.python.testing.general.  Regardless of this I 
wish you the best of luck with your endeavours :)

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence