Tutorials
A Beginner's Guide to Web Load Testing
A practical, tool-agnostic overview of load testing — how to start, build a test, prepare the environment, and read results. The first thing to read if you're new.
Measuring SugarCRM Performance
A typical load-testing project walked through start to finish, using SugarCRM as the example. Most of it applies to any web application.
Load Testing an AJAX Application
Web apps behave more like desktop apps every year — smarter, snappier, harder to load test. What changes, and how to handle it.
Load Testing ASP.NET Applications
The process of load testing an ASP.NET application in detail. Most of it generalizes to any web stack.
Best Practices
Tips and general strategies we've learned across years of WPLoadTester development and load-testing engagements.
Unique User Logins
Configure a test case so each virtual user has its own username and password — the basic pattern for any authenticated load test.
Customizing User Input
Make each virtual user submit unique values into forms during replay. The next step after unique logins.
Creating a Dataset
How to build a dataset and bind it to form fields so virtual users use real data during replay.
Overriding ASM
Two techniques for overriding the default Automatic State Management dynamic-field configuration when ASM gets it wrong.
Handling AJAX Callbacks
One approach for handling AJAX callbacks in an AJAX-heavy web app using a custom detection rule.
Load Testing from the Cloud
Generate load from outside your network using the Amazon EC2 load engine integration.
Calculate Number of Virtual Users
Interactive calculator for sizing a load test — how many concurrent virtual users to simulate based on traffic, session length, and goals.