Comments on: OSCON 2006: Rock-solid Web Development: Testing Web Apps

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:56:58 +0000

malikyte,

The Grinder actually relies on JMeter internally, so if JMeter does all you need then it will certainly be a simpler tool to use. The Grinder builds on top of that simple foundation a framework for recording user interaction scripts and playing them back from multiple agents distributed across your testing network, and monitoring the results from a single console.

By: malikyte

malikyte — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:57:26 +0000

Anyone able to compare The Grinder to Apache JMeter and direct variations thereof? Also, considering the many different open source options for load testing, and his honesty about Grinder’s difficulty, I have to wonder if perhaps there would be a better alternative.

By: nicklo

nicklo — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:13:29 +0000

Hi Kevin,

Well I wasn’t suggesting it was necessarily different. Perhaps I should have said “Your readers may ALSO be interested in…”. To be honest I’ve not really used it much but reading your post reminded me of it and that maybe I should put it to more use.

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:05:06 +0000

Nicklo,

How is that different from what Selenium IDE can do? Or is it just the fact that the recorded scripts can be used in multiple frameworks?

By: nicklo

nicklo — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:00:26 +0000

You may be interested in the Firefox extension “TestGen4Web”. It’s “a tool which can record user actions on firefox. Save the recording to an xml file, also replay the saved recording. The output of the recorder can also be translated into automatic testing scripts such as httpunit, selenium, simple-test etc.”

http://developer.spikesource.com/wiki/index.php/Projects:TestGen4Web