WAPT

Publisher: SoftLogica Inc Platform: Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP License: Shareware, FREE to try Price: $350.00 $315.00 Buy Now and save $35.00 File Size: 4.10 Mb

WAPT is a load, stress and performance testing tool for web sites and applications with web interfaces. The product is designed to produce the maximum possible load on the web site under examination. At the same time it uses various techniques to make this load as similar as possible to the activity of real users browsing the web site in real life. This approach guarantees that if the tests are passed, the web site will show same performance characteristics in everyday usage.

Real users of your web site can behave differently. They browse different areas of the site, have different connection speeds, cookie settings and many other variations. Separate profiles can be created for each type of user where you can specify these parameters. You can also specify web pages visited by certain types of users. To do this you simply browse through these pages in Internet Explorer whilst WAPT records your actions. You can create as many profiles as you need.

For each test you specify how many users WAPT should emulate. For example, if you are planning a marketing campaign and expect a significant amount of additional site visitors above average, you may create an additional profile for a typical visitor brought to the site by the campaign, and specify the projected number of extra visitors. Now you can add this profile to your base scenario and examine how the additional load will affect the performance of your site.

WAPT can emulate users coming from different IP addresses, provided that you run it on a system with many IP addresses available. Each virtual user can authorize on the server using an individual name and password. All regular authentication techniques are supported.

The overall maximum load created by WAPT on a web site can be measured by the number of concurrent virtual users accessing the site simultaneously. WAPT is able to create up to several thousands virtual users for the test. However this number significantly depends on your test profiles, network bandwidth, hardware and the operating system used on the computer where you run WAPT.

WAPT displays test results in the form of descriptive graphs and reports with various levels of detail. Using summary reports you can easily see if the test revealed any performance problems. You may then access more detailed reports to see the performance of particular pages and user profiles. This will help you identify the problem and make a proper correction to enhance the performance of your web site.

You can test web sites running under any OS, including all Unix and Windows platforms, and web applications using the most popular technologies such as ASP, JSP, PHP, CGI, Java, etc. WAPT fully supports HTTPS/SSL web sites. You can also test multilingual sites using different language encoding options.

WAPT can be easily integrated into your development environment. It stores test scenarios and profiles in universal XML format, so they can be modified by third party software. In addition to the regular Windows interface WAPT is able to execute basic operations using command line.

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.

Today thousands of businesses worldwide face the challenge of establishing their web presence - a goal difficult to achieve without efficient web site development and testing tools. Why is load and stress testing is so important? Most performance issues arise only when the server is stressed with a high user load. This means that you should perform load testing to know how many concurrent visitors your site can serve flawlessly. It can be difficult to organize such testing without the help of a group of real users. The right way is to use advanced automatic load and stress testing tools. WAPT can simulate up to several thousands real users to check the performance of your site and find any bottlenecks.

WAPT is designed for Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP. It is competitively priced and does not require expensive hardware to run. If you have been looking for an easy to use yet powerful web load testing solution, look no further. Download the 30-day trial version and see for yourself.

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Accurate simulation of real user activity

WAPT uses a number of advanced techniques to simulate real load conditions. This approach is much more efficient than producing stress test by sending many identical requests to the server. WAPT creates a simulation of many different users coming from different IP addresses, each with their own parameters: cookies, input data for various page forms, name and password, connection speed and their own specific path through the site. WAPT can even simulate random time between user clicks to make each virtual user as similar as possible to a human user.

Different types of users in one test

f you want to simulate thousands of users, you do not need to specify separate behavior for each of them. Practice shows that usually site visitors can be divided into certain types, and this approach is used in WAPT. You specify behavior for each type of users and add to the test as many users types as you need. For example, users of an online shop can be divided into those who browse through the catalog, and those brought to a certain page through a marketing campaign to purchase a specific item. Each type of users has specific path through the site and other customizable parameters. For each type you create a separate profile all this data can be specified. In the test you can use as many virtual users of each type as you need. You can create more profiles to represent users browsing different areas of the site or making specific purchases. This will make your test more accurate.

Testing of dynamic web applications

HTTP requests can include parameters that are specific for each user. The values of such parameters can even be different for different users of the same type and can change throughout the session. For example, the server can send a session variable in the reply to the first request from a new user. This variable is added to the subsequent requests from that user to identify them. You can specify how to use these changing parameters.

Flexible load level definition

You can either choose constant load level for the whole test time or increase the load after specified time intervals during the test. You can specify the overall test time and the number of virtual users for each profile. Overall load also significantly depends on the type of users, so you can change it by introducing new types of users, making them "slow" or "fast".

Testing of HTTPS/SSL content

WAPT supports testing of web sites and applications secured by SSL. You do not need to perform any additional actions and can easily work with HTTPS sites just as you do with any others.

Descriptive test reports and graphs

WAPT displays test results through descriptive reports and graphs. They are available even during the test, so you can monitor key parameters of web application performance on the fly and see how your site responds to the increasing load volume. Summary reports and graphs are useful to determine the presence of any problems in overall performance. Then you can check through more detailed reports down to the level of separate user profiles and pages to find specific bottlenecks. All reports are created in HTML format, so you can easily share them with your colleagues. You can also save test results in MS Excel compatible format. During the test WAPT collects complete test data including server replies to each request. You can use this information to research site behavior in all details.