WAPT uses a number of advanced techniques to
simulate real live load conditions. This approach is much more
efficient than producing high load 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
If 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
YYou 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.
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