Archive for June, 2008

Extract Transaction Data From LoadRunner Analysis

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

I had a need to extract transaction response time data from a bunch of LoadRunner Analysis files, and I really didn't want to do endless cut and paste operations from within the LoadRunner Analysis tool. I created this Python script to extract transaction response time data from the LoadRunner ...

Apache JMeter 2.3.2 Released

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Version 2.3.2 of Apache JMeter has been released. For details of new features and fixes, please ...

Tools to Develop Faster Web Pages

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Jacob Gube just published "15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages" at sixrevisions.com. It gives a nice list and high level overview of free tools that are useful for web performance. It includes such tools as load generators, profilers, and debugging proxies.Pylot (my tool) made his ...

Introduction to The Grinder

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

The Grinder is: The Grinder is a JavaTM load testing framework that makes it easy to run a distributed test using many load injector machines. Until recently, I had been reluctant to investigate The Grinder because I was unfamiliar with Jython/Python, and hesitant to dig into a new language. I was wrong. Not ...