OpenSTA is a
feature-rich
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GUI-based
web server benchmarking
Web server benchmarking is the process of estimating a web server performance in order to find if the server can serve sufficiently high workload.
Key parameters
The performance is usually measured in terms of:
*Number of requests that can be ser ...
utility that can perform scripted HTTP and HTTPS heavy load tests with performance measurements.
It is freely available and distributable under the
open source
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GNU General Public License
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. OpenSTA currently only runs on
Microsoft Windows
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-based operating systems.
Scripts are recorded in a
proprietary language called "SCL". It is a fairly simple coding language that provides support for custom functions, variable scopes, and random or sequential lists.
OpenSTA was originally written by Cyrano. Cyrano's intentions were to write commercial plug in modules and support for OpenSTA for performance testing non-web applications.
Note that the most recent version posted on th
OpenSTA home pageis 1.4.4, released 27 Oct, 2007.
See also
*
Load testing tools
Load or LOAD may refer to:
Aeronautics and transportation
*Load factor (aeronautics), the ratio of the lift of an aircraft to its weight
*Passenger load factor, the ratio of revenue passenger miles to available seat miles of a particular transpo ...
References
External links
OpenSTA home pageOpenSTA SourceForge project page
Benchmarks (computing)
Windows Internet software
Load testing tools
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