Jauder Ho wrote: > Another application (commercial) is Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner.
My experience with commercial load-testing apps is that they are outrageously expensive, a pain to program, don't really scale all that well, and mostly have to run on Windows with someone sitting at the mouse. There are some that work better than others, but the free stuff in this areas is quite good. I recommend httperf and http_load for banging on lists of URLs really hard. At eToys, one of our developers rigged up some shell scripts that would play back log files through httperf and that worked pretty well. If you want to record browser sessions for testing specific paths through the site, look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/http-recorder/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/roboweb/. There's also webchatpp, HTTP::WebTest, and HTTP::MonkeyWrench on CPAN. All of these have been discussed on this list before. - Perrin
