Stress, Soak and Load testing

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Hi all

Working on a substantial web application at the moment. Give the large volumn of data being made available to customers via our web site we need to carry out a large amount of Stress, Soak and Load testing.

Can anyone recommend some suitable tools, our application has been developed using SQL SERVER 2005 and Vb.NET (2005)?

Mike55.
 
I haven't used any tools personally. I will generally write a small webot (elmer fudd anyone?) to simulate several constant page requests. Run it on a few machiens in your network and run it on a few outside your network. Then watch the performance stats on your web and sql servers. Also keep an eye on your bandwidth usage, even on a T1 it starts to add up.

I've read good things about:
http://www.webperformanceinc.com/products/
but like I said, I've never used it.

Alik Levin has a neat article about using a Free WCAT Tool:
http://blogs.msdn.com/alikl/archive...-net-web-application-with-free-wcat-tool.aspx
 
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