ANAndys·Jan 13, 2011
For load testing, I use tourbus: https://github.com/dbrady/tourbus
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dbrady / tourbus
tourbus
Website load testing tool in Ruby, with the ability to "unload a busload of tourists" on a website, each with the ability to trace through complex application paths.
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2Mentions
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265GitHub stars
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What it is
Website load testing tool in Ruby, with the ability to "unload a busload of tourists" on a website, each with the ability to trace through complex application paths.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Nov 2009 | 2009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 2009 | 2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2010 | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2010 | 2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2010 | 2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2010 | 2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2010 | 2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2010 | 2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2010 | 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2010 | 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2010 | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2010 | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2010 | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2010 | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesA tool such as Tourbus might work. It's a Ruby app meant to stress test Web sites. It uses Webrat and (I think) Mechanize underneath, and does not open any browsers.
If the site in question has scripting you're out of luck, but otherwise it should be quite useful.
In fact, I found yourself using both Tourbus and Selenium on a project, and decided I didn't want to have duplicate tests, so I wrote some helper code to allow Tourbus to execute my Selenium scripts. So far, so good. I can record the actions in the Selenium 'IDE' plugin, and use them in Tourbus.
http://github.com/dbrady/tourbus
In Ask HN: Scriptable command line browser?