Comments on: Hosted Load Testing II http://www.shunra.com/shunrablog/index.php/2009/10/30/hosted-load-testing-ii/ Supporting application performance management for IT professionals Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:28:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: vikas http://www.shunra.com/shunrablog/index.php/2009/10/30/hosted-load-testing-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-1178 vikas Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:38:57 +0000 http://www.shunra.com/shunrablog/?p=1693#comment-1178 Hi, I was having a query on the methodology of testing an application in the cloud. Yes, we can use HP elastic test or Load storm or various other tools like Browsermob or neo load too. But what we are able to test here is the same as that of a scenario of an on premise application. Using any of these tools, how can we check the dynamic allocations and deallocations of servers (based on load)? I have read many blogs and articles quoting that quite a few tools can do it. But none of these tools actually show us how the elasticity can be checked and monitored. True that, HP Load Runner has with it a tool canlled sitescope that will perform website monitoring. But i still do not find any option as to dynamically check the servers being hit when the allocation is done on the fly based on increasing/decreasing loads. Please let me know if you find any information that can help me. Thanks Hi,

I was having a query on the methodology of testing an application in the cloud. Yes, we can use HP elastic test or Load storm or various other tools like Browsermob or neo load too. But what we are able to test here is the same as that of a scenario of an on premise application.
Using any of these tools, how can we check the dynamic allocations and deallocations of servers (based on load)?
I have read many blogs and articles quoting that quite a few tools can do it. But none of these tools actually show us how the elasticity can be checked and monitored.
True that, HP Load Runner has with it a tool canlled sitescope that will perform website monitoring. But i still do not find any option as to dynamically check the servers being hit when the allocation is done on the fly based on increasing/decreasing loads.
Please let me know if you find any information that can help me.
Thanks

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]]> By: Scott Price http://www.shunra.com/shunrablog/index.php/2009/10/30/hosted-load-testing-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-569 Scott Price Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:33:08 +0000 http://www.shunra.com/shunrablog/?p=1693#comment-569 Nice article David. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. LoadRunner is the high-end legacy load testing tool, and your points are well taken about how cloud makes life easier and cheaper. Have you tried any of the new cloud testing services that were built from the ground up to dynamically allocate/manage all the load generation resources necessary? They abstract all of this layer so you can focus on the performance testing and tuning that is unique to your application. The big benefit is time and money. Some of these services can let you run performance tests for 5,000 concurrent users for $300 per month. And the kicker? You can run 100 test iterations for that same $300! That's the real game changer in my opinion. Please take a look at http://loadstorm.com It may be too simple for your needs because you are already a LR guru, but for the 90% of web developers in the world that can't afford LR, this native cloud load testing tool can be a tremendous addition to the bag of tricks. Feel free to contact me if you want to collaborate on any performance testing blogging. Thanks again and good luck. Nice article David. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. LoadRunner is the high-end legacy load testing tool, and your points are well taken about how cloud makes life easier and cheaper. Have you tried any of the new cloud testing services that were built from the ground up to dynamically allocate/manage all the load generation resources necessary? They abstract all of this layer so you can focus on the performance testing and tuning that is unique to your application. The big benefit is time and money. Some of these services can let you run performance tests for 5,000 concurrent users for $300 per month. And the kicker? You can run 100 test iterations for that same $300!

That’s the real game changer in my opinion. Please take a look at http://loadstorm.com It may be too simple for your needs because you are already a LR guru, but for the 90% of web developers in the world that can’t afford LR, this native cloud load testing tool can be a tremendous addition to the bag of tricks.

Feel free to contact me if you want to collaborate on any performance testing blogging.

Thanks again and good luck.

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