Re: apache test suite
I wrote a test suite in Tcl for the Rivet project that works pretty well. It's fairly minimalistic, but it works and doesn't require much setup. It would certainly require some adaptation to make it work with your own system. It is aimed at Rivet, not Apache, although I think it's reasonably flexible... Ciao, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/
Re: library-ization
Aaron Bannert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:21:23AM -0700, David N. Welton wrote: And I would like an HTTP tester library. I think that if done in this way, it would be versatile enough to replace ab, and it would also give people the freedom to experiment with other front ends. Like someting in Tk, gtk, or whatever... Ah, but that is precisely why we use XML input to control the behaviour of flood, so that someone can come along and write whatever fancy GUI app they wish and couple it only to our XMl schema. There is another reason why we chose XML that gives us greater flexibility than a library interface could ever give -- platform transparency. Since flood processes need not all run on the same machine, it is not a requirement that all machines where flood are running be of the same operating system or architecture. This also means that the GUI need not be on the same machine where the actual flood process is invoked. Try doing that with a library. It would be no problem if it were at the right level. One thing that might be useful would be if something like tcl were embedded in flood. And that's where you need an API. Maybe the right approach is to not have Flood be a library, but to have an API that lets you control a lot of it, ala Apache. I think I prefer the library approach personally, because it would let one create different front ends, which would let flood be *the* apache benchmark tool. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/
Re: library-ization
Jacek Prucia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it a goal of the flood project to make a library out of it? In other words, expose an API that other programs could pass data into and out of, and link to? Or will XML be the only way to do this? It will probably be XML only. If you want other software on top of flood, you'll have to wrap it around flood binary (with pipes or so). I started doing this with 'ab', and was directed to flood as a more modern effort with more work going into it. It looks pretty good so far! Yeah, but we still have a lot of work to do. Voulnteers and patches welcome :) Well, I'm primarily interested in seeing flood as a versatile a tool as possible... which for me means a library that I can use with other things, and also a simple command line tool ala ab. I think this would be possible if flood were a library with a few different executable front ends - ab, flood, gtkflood, etc... I guess I'll keep quite though, because I doubt I'll have the time to do this at work. Just out of curiosity, will flood be supplanting 'ab' at some point? This is probably best for Aaron or Justin to answer, but IMHO no. ApacheBench is a very simple tool. You can hit just one url, no config file, etc. It's just fine when it comes to simple testing. Flood can hit many url's, has structured config file, and besides typical stress tests, it can be used also for 'web application regression tests' and 'web capacity planning'. Well... sort of... most of the features aren't implemented yet, but we're moving forward ;)) Hrm... I see. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/
library-ization
Just a few quick questions: Is it a goal of the flood project to make a library out of it? In other words, expose an API that other programs could pass data into and out of, and link to? Or will XML be the only way to do this? I started doing this with 'ab', and was directed to flood as a more modern effort with more work going into it. It looks pretty good so far! Just out of curiosity, will flood be supplanting 'ab' at some point? Thankyou, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/
