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WAPT - Load and stress testing tool for web applications

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I am sure you have seen similar screens (to the left) from twitter all the time, right? People even do not pay attention to these error messages anymore, because it became a common occurrence.

So, how not to be a twitter? In other words, how not to repeat the failures of twitter when you launch your new web project?

Besides having robust and scalable infrastructure, one way to make sure your web application (code) is reliable and won’t go down when there is too many people accessing it, is to - test, test, test! (E.g. load testing, stress testing…etc)

But how do you test when it’s not even live yet? How do you simulate thousands of people accessing your website? So that you can test if your application can handle the load? (I think the twitter developers supposed to ask these questions before they launched twitter :)

Solution is WAPT

WAPT 5.0 is a load and stress testing tool that provides you with an easy-to-use, consistent and cost-effective way of testing web sites, web servers, and intranet applications with web interfaces. You may test and analyze the performance characteristics under various load conditions to find bottlenecks of your web applications. WAPT has a set of features to test web sites with dynamic content and secure HTTPS pages. It provides informative test results through descriptive graphs and reports.

You can simulate the number of users accessing your site, you can either set a fixed number of users, or define it in a way that it will increase the number of users to your website at specified time intervals (see below).

WAPT can simulate up to several thousands real users to check the performance of your site and find any bottlenecks.

Full Features:

• Accurate simulation of real user activity
• Different types of users in one test
• Testing of dynamic web applications
• Flexible load level definition
• Testing of HTTPS/SSL content
• Descriptive test reports and graphs

WAPT is designed for Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP.

It’s priced at $350 for 1-2 licences. You can try the 30-day free trial version here or order full-version here.

Website: http://www.loadtestingtool.com

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