INFO: Stress Tools to Test Your Web Server

ID: Q231282

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Information Server versions 3.0, 4.0

SUMMARY

This article provides a list of tools you can use to simulate load for your Web applications. By simulating load for your application, you can test concurrency issues as well as better understand how your application behaves under stress. Testing load and concurrency by refreshing a browser is not considered a valid test.

MORE INFORMATION

Following is a list of Web stress tools available from Microsoft:

Web Application Stress Tool

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Click the file name below to download the file:
(Web Capacity Analysis Tool)
Wcat.exe
For more information about how to download files from the Microsoft Download Center, please visit the Download Center at the following Web address
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp
and then click How to use the Microsoft Download Center.

InetMonitor

With these tools you can stress test your Web server to see how it reacts when several hundred users access your application at peak times. These tools can also be used to test the server-side components for performance, locks, and other scalability issues. A Web application that relies on databases can also be tested on parameters such as concurrency, transactions, number of users, locks, pooling, and so forth.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbASP kbGrpASP kbIIS
Version : winnt:3.0,4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo