Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:56:42 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/ OpenSTA portal en http://portal.opensta.org/images/logo.png http://portal.opensta.org/ portal@opensta.org http://portal.opensta.org/Article51.html I am pleased to announce this fifth release of the stable 1.4 series of OpenSTA. Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:56:42 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article50.html Commercial OpenSTA Support: Funding the future of OpenSTA Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:38:03 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article49.html Performance Testing Web Applications with OpenSTA is the title of a presentation I will give at StarEast in Orlando on May 18. The abstract for the presentation is here. This is a repeat of the one I gave at StarWest and AQAA in 2006. The presentation is available for download here. Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:34:32 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article48.html The terminology used to discuss Performance testing in technical publications and support forums can be ambiguous or inconsistent. Hopefully this article will help participants in the OpenSTA user support forum by providing a common frame of reference for discussing tools, testing, and test results. It may also be helpful to those new to performance testing. Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:28:43 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article46.html In an article comparing and performance testing various IT stacks (.Net, LAMP, etc) written by Jim Rapoza there is a nice little feature block on OpenSTA. The benchmarks were actually done using SilkPerformer, but OpenSTA obviously impressed the author enough to provide this plug The featurette on OpenSTA can be read online here. From that page you can also click through to the interesting performance test article. Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:10:07 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article45.html On February 8, 2006, I gave an overview of OpenSTA and its capabilities to the Dallas Metro-SQA group. The presentation is available for download. Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:06:09 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article44.html WebSphere System Integration Testing with OpenSTA (a success story). Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:21:52 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article43.html This article describes how to use an Excel pivot table to generate a report from data exported from OpenSTA. The report shows average, min and max response times, standard deviation, and count of samples by user by timer. The spreadsheet can be downloaded from http://iperformax.com/downloads/OpenSTAPivotTable.zip Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:45:19 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article42.html BView is a browser view for the OpenSTA Script Modeler, allowing scripts to be monitored while run from this tool. This can help with debugging scripts. This new BView release (1.0.3) is available from the OpenSTA Contributed Software page. Thu, 09 Jun 2005 23:02:32 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article41.html I am pleased to announce this fourth release of the stable 1.4 series of OpenSTA. This release has been a long time coming but it should be the start of a new active period in OpenSTAs upkeep and development. The release rights some inconvenient issues that arrived with use on WinXP, fixes some old bugs, and generally improves stability specifically in the area of recording. It is recommended that all users upgrade to this release. Thu, 12 May 2005 23:15:05 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article40.html When you are running a test, it's is sometimes useful or even neccesary to verify that you are getting the right results back from the webserver. This article describes how to get the web page response and how to check for a specific string in that web page. Tue, 03 May 2005 12:10:52 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article39.html The OpenSTA SCL Reference has been given a thorough overhaul and re-released as version 2. Currently it is only available as online HTML here: http://OpenSTA.org/docs/sclref/ Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:17:48 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article38.html The software this site runs on has been updated and it has been relocated to a new server. Please comment this story if you notice anything strange or broken Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:08:41 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article37.html "The best OpenSource tool for general web based load generation is OpenSTA" - Scott Barber For more info, see this Summary on testingReflections.com Or read the original interview on whatistesting.com Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:06:56 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article36.html Hi all, Hope this is helpful... After adding the following code, each VUser will have its own identity (username/password) pair when the script is running. Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:26:16 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article35.html BView is a browser view for the OpenSTA Script Modeler, allowing scripts to be monitored while run from this tool. This can help with debugging scripts. This new BView release (and potential future ones) are now homed on the new OpenSTA Contributed Software page. Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:31:45 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article34.html Check out this comparison between OpenSTA and Load Runner on testingReflections.com I hope you find it useful... Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:33:32 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article33.html Our company used one of the big-three's commercial load testing tools. We have a 250 virtual user license for this tool. Another group in the company has a 1000 virtual user license. We needed to "borrow" some of their licenses and it turned into a political mess... Hassles arguing over licensing were holding us back from doing real work. The solution was that I rewrote our load tests with OpenSTA in about 3 hours and had us up and running! No more license problems. If we had to purchases the licenses it would have cost several thousand dollars. Nice solid tool to work with.. A win for us and win for OpenSTA! Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:12:31 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article32.html As a freelance Consultant, I use OpenSTA for stressing and measuring my Customer's Web Server and "n-tiers" applications. Some of them also want to monitor the decrease of performances over a long-time period. The idea is then to prepare specific OpenSTA tests that will be run periodically (on every Sunday night for example). The analysis of the Test Results can be very tedious as they grow week after week. So I developped small programs which purpose is to run the Scripts in Batch Mode on a PC and then transfer the results on a Linux Server where they are compiled into graphs that can be integrated in a monitoring tool such as Big-Brother. Then each instance of the Test Results gives a graph. Graphs are then gathered by "family" and can be easily compared... (I will explain my concept of "Test Family" with OpenSTA in a further article). Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:09:36 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article31.html If you used bookmarks or search engines to come to this site, you may not have noticed, that it's "closed", meaning that it's front page has been replaced by a note that the european parliament will soon decide about the legislation and adoption of so called software patents. As this is a threat not only to open source software, we decided to participate. If you haven't seen it, please visit the homepage and read more about the issue. Thanks Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:11:21 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article30.html I admit: We missed it by few days: The first article on this portal was posted a year and some days ago: Wednesday, July 3rd 2002. Happy birthday, portal.opensta.org! Let's see what happened during this year... Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:39:48 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article29.html Thanks to all those that voted. Please don’t add any more votes!! We can’t disable the POLL and it would be a shame to delete it! Here are the results… Thu, 03 Jul 2003 00:12:57 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article28.html The OpenSTA Portal now has a Polls feature. This will be used to get feedback from the OpenSTA community so that YOU are in control of OpenSTA’s future. Before I give you the link, let me tell you how these Polls benefit you... Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:36:01 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article27.html The British Computer Society's Specialist Interest Group In Software Testing (SIGIST) holds 4-5 public conferences each year. Their conference on 10th July 2003 features a presentation introducing "OpenSTA - The Professional's Load Testing Tool, and it's FREE!". It will be presented by Antony Marcano and Andy O'Brien of etest associates ABSTRACT follows... Thu, 05 Jun 2003 05:37:37 +0000 http://portal.opensta.org/Article26.html Context OpenSTA is a Windows based tool, and so has the ability to monitor the performance of Windows-based machines built into it. Creating an NT Performance collector and selecting the ‘Browse Queries’ button to select what is required allows the simple definition of the information required. Where performance information is required for other systems, however, the definition of the required collectors is slightly more complex. Wed, 04 Jun 2003 14:27:15 +0000