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Introduction :

"Since the introduction of WebLOAD Open Source in April 2007 RadView has been serving two communities-the Open Source Community (free) and the Enterprise Community (paying). Following market feedback and internal analysis, RadView has decided to adjust the feature mix between its offerings to the two communities. As a result, certain features which were previously available in WebLOAD Open Source will no longer be available in this edition. While this step may disappoint some of you in the short term, we believe that the new feature mix will enable RadView to better support the Open Source Community for many years to come and will result in a superior load testing product for the benefit of all. "

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Webload Features :

Powerful Recording, Editing and Debugging :

WebLOAD Open Source introduces a unified script authoring environment for recording, editing and debugging.

An intuitive interface enables novice testers to create scripts with drag-and-drop simplicity. Experienced users will appreciate the ability to edit the script directly in the familiar java script language.

In debugging mode, this powerful tool simultaneously displays four views: The HTML source, actual browser view, HTTP headers representing traffic and even the browser's DOM. The DOM view provides convenient access to the most relevant objects, hidden or otherwise, enabling full control and flexible access to the application.

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WebLOAD Open Source Requires Less Hardware :
" WebLOAD maximizes your existing hardware configuration in more than one way. By minimizing the footprint a virtual client consumes, a larger load of users and traffic can be simulated than with any other performance tool. While maintaining an efficient footprint, WebLOAD also scales to extreme proportions upon demand, meeting the challenges of peak-demand and high-volume tests. Another measure that maximizes existing hardware, is the ability to run the same WebLOAD test scripts on a variety of Windows, Linux, or Solaris platforms. "

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Extensive Performance Monitoring & Statistics :

"WebLOAD offers online monitoring as part of its load testing. Comprehensive reliability testing is facilitated by the wide range of standard and customizable performance measures and reports. WebLOAD gathers statistics from the client side which can be used to analyze the performance of the system-under-test. To complement that view, WebLOAD features a customizable monitoring client that can probe the application's various servers and integrate their statistics into the same repository as the client side statistics. This comprehensive database is used to generate unified analytical and performance reports. Out-of-the-box support is provided for the most common operating systems and web servers Microsoft IIS, Microsoft .NET Framework, Sun One and more. "

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Latest Webload Updations :

" April 11 2007:

RadView Launches World's First Commercial-Grade Open Source Internet Performance Testing Product into $1 Billion Market.

WebLOAD, created by the co-founder of Mercury Interactive and backed by 1,600 commercial deployments and 250 engineering years, adopts GPL


June 20 2007 :

Next-Generation WebLOAD Reporter (alpha) now available for download!

In conjunction with RadView's product strategy to shorten time-to-market by integrating leading Open Source Components, the new reporter is based on the Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) for client implementation, Jasper Reports for the report generation engine, and PostgreSQL for data storage.


June 27 2007 :

WebLOAD 8.1 includes some important new features, among them a complete UI refresh, an extensibility SDK and additional server-side monitoring. During the alpha phase, some of these features might not work properly, and we are working on fixes that will provided in subsequent builds.

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WebLOAD SDK & Server-side monitoring:

WebLOAD SDK:

WebLOAD now supports new extensibility features that enable users and developers to enhance WebLOAD through the following extensions:
Protocol Driver Extension
PMM Extensions
Toolbox Extension
User Agent Extension
Console Report Template Extension
Object (Java) Extension

Server-side monitoring:

WebLOAD now provides support for monitoring JMX-enabled applications and monitoring of Apache web servers

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WEbLoAd Architecture :

" WebLOAD provides a comprehensive and robust environment for load testing. This includes a full authoring environment for recording, editing and debugging test scripts, a highly efficient execution environment for defining load parameters (virtual users), running and monitoring the tests as well as reporting tools for analyzing and presenting test results.



NOTE: The WebLOAD environment includes several components as described in the links above. Currently only the Load Generator component (the engine that generates the actual load) is offered as an open source component. All other components are temporarily only offered as free binaries. It is in the WebLOAD.org roadmap to replace these components with new fully open source versions.

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Online reports by the WebLOAD console :

The WebLOAD console includes online reports for displaying the load session statistics. WebLOAD collects a complete set of statistics into its repository, enabling the user to define customized views that focus on any subset of the data.

The user can toggle between a graphical view and a corresponding textual (table) view of each user-defined report. Using a few simple clicks, the user may add or delete a statistic at any time to the report being viewed.

The user may also create more complex views for regression testing. WebLOAD enables the user to load the results of a previously executed session in order to compare them with the results of the current session. This could be done post execution but can also be done online while the current session is still executing for immediate spotting of changes in behavior.

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WebLOAD Quick Start

Welcome to WebLOAD, the premier performance, scalability and reliability testing solution for Web applications - Internet and intranet.
WebLOAD is easy to use and delivers maximum testing performance and value. WebLOAD verifies the scalability and integrity of Web applications by generating a load composed of Virtual Clients that simulate real-world traffic. Probing Clients let you refine the testing process by acting as a single user that measures the performance of targeted activities, and provides
individual performance statistics of the Web application under load.

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How WebLOAD Works

WebLOAD tests Web applications by generating Virtual Clients that simulate real-world loads.Virtual Clients emulate the actions of human users by performing typical actions on your Web application. By increasing the number of Virtual Clients, you increase the load on the system.You create visual JavaScript-based test scripts (Agendas) that define the behavior of the Virtual Clients and WebLOAD executes these test scripts monitoring the application response graphically and statistically, and presenting the test results in real time.

WebLOAD incorporates functional verification into the scalability testing process allowing you to accurately verify the scalability and integrity of your Web applications at the per-client, per-transaction, and per-instance level under defined load conditions. WebLOAD saves the test results including data from the Load Machines and the hosting hardware's performance monitor.
You can view all or part of the data in real time, or after the test session is complete, in tabular format or in graphical format.

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How to Creating an Agenda?

The first step in creating an Agenda is to record your actions as you interact with your Web application.
1. Start WebLOAD IDE by selecting Start | All Programs | TestView | WebLOAD IDE. WebLOAD IDE opens

2. Select Create a new project, and click OK.
The WebLOAD IDE main window opens in Editing Mode, for you to begin creating your Agenda.

3. In the main window, in Editing Mode, click the Start Record toolbar button to begin recording.

4. Click OK. WebLOAD IDE begins recording all of the actions you perform in the browser, as indicated by the recording notification in the WebLOAD IDE status bar. A blank browser window opens.

5. In the address bar, enter the Web address Welcome Netizen to go to the RadView Software test site.

6. Navigate through the site, performing the actions you want to test.
For example:
a. Click My Account on the home page.
b. Click the Click Here to Login link

c. Enter any set of numbers as a fictional social security number, enter a dummy password, and click Submit.
d. Click the Search link to the right.
e. Enter a keyword such as Interest to search for in the search field and select the
checkboxes Home Mortgage and Business Banking.
f. Click Search.
Your actions are recorded and appear in the Agenda Tree as you navigate the site. (If you see more nodes in the Agenda Tree with different URLs, this may be traffic generated by browser plug-ins or extensions, for example, third-party toolbars).

7. Click the Stop Record toolbar button in WebLOAD IDE to stop the recording.

8. Click the Save toolbar button or click File | Save As to save your Agenda.

9. Type in Netizen Banking for the name of the Agenda in the Save As dialog box and click Save.

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Configuring a Load Template using the WebLOAD Wizard

Configuring a load template with the WebLOAD Wizard:
1. Opening the WebLOAD Wizard.
2. Selecting an Agenda and a Performance Statistic to monitor.
3. Selecting a host on which to run the Load Machine.
4. Scheduling the test, and selecting the number of Virtual Clients to run.
5. Setting session options.

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Selecting a Host Details

For the steps in this Quick Start, you use your own machine as the host load machine to generate Virtual Clients. The number of Virtual Clients that can be generated depends on the power of the host machine. For this test, you do not select a Probing Client.

1. On the Host Selection screen, note that your computer is automatically listed as the default Load Machine.
2. Click Next to accept the default selection.

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Scheduling the Test


When you schedule the test, you define the load to be generated throughout the test and the total testing time. The Load Profiler provides a quick and easy way to select different testing patterns.

To schedule the test:

1. On the Schedule screen, select Manual, and click Next.
The wizard progresses to the Schedule Manually screen.
2. Click on the name of your computer.
The Load Profiler buttons becomes enabled.
3. Click Load Profiler. The Load Profiler opens.
4. Select Linear from the Select scheduling model drop-down list.
5. Accept the defaults for the Total time in minutes and Starting Load Size fields. Enter 10 in the Concluding Load Size field.
The test will run for 10 minutes, starting with a load of 5 Virtual Clients and increasing to a maximum of 10.
6. Click Replace.
The Linear Schedule model now appears in the row below your host computer name in the Schedule Manually screen.
7. Click Next.
8. Clear the option to run the load template immediately, and click Finish.
You have now completed creating a load template using the WebLOAD Wizard.

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How create an Integrated Report?

1. In the WebLOAD Console, select Reports | Report Manager.
The Integrated Report dialog box appears.
2. In the Integrated Report dialog box, click New.
3. In the tree, expand the Netizen Banking::Total branch.
4. Click the "+" sign adjacent to Hit Time to expand the branch and then expand Current Slice. Select the checkbox adjacent to Average (Current Value). Checkmarks appear next to Hit Time, Current Slice, and Average (Current Value).
5. Expand Successful Hits and then expand Current Slice. Select the checkbox next to Sum (Current Value).
6. Expand Successful Connections and then expand Current Slice. Select the checkbox next to Sum (Current Value).
7. Scroll to the PM@your-system-name branch at the bottom of the tree (PM stands for performance monitor). Click the "+" sign adjacent to it to expand the branch. Expand Processor:%Processor Time:_Time and then expand Current Slice. Select the checkbox next to Average (Current Value).
This choice displays the statistics on CPU processor usage that were collected during the load test.
8. Click OK. The Save dialog box appears.
9.Type in MyReport for the name of the report, click Predefined Report, and click OK. The new report is added to the list of Predefined Reports.
10. To open the newly created report, select MyReport in the list of Predefined Reports, and click Open. In the WebLOAD Console Results window, the MyReport tab appears displaying the report data. The name of the tab is the name of the report you selected.
11. If the test is still running, select Session Control | Stop All.
12. Select File | Save Load Session to save the data from the test along with the template information (Agenda, options and schedule). Specify a filename (NetizenBanking), and location and click Save.

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