Complex Loading Situation

[sumkey]

I do have quite a few issues with the unintuitive script creation for
heavly Ajax'ed apps, but my main issue appears to be that the load
testing simply does not like our web application, there is something
odd going on with cookies which is breaking our single sign on,
something that does not happen with my current limited load test (60
odd users).

This of course maybe be workaroundable but it is an indication to me
that these users are not a complete true representation of real users.
Now I'm going to try and implement a load test solution via the
framework I have already setup as I have had some success getting it
running on Amazon EC2 today, if that falls flat I maybe be back to
square one and pick this up again.

Again thanks for your time.

[serverloading]

Thanks for the comments.

You're correct: eValid in LoadTest mode may or may not always delete
cookies and/or cache information...this depends on the DeleteCache
or DeleteCookies commands in your script, and also on a global setting
that can tell eValid to "never use cache" in playback.

All of those options are controlled in the settings and in the script and
it may indeed be that the wrong combinations can mess up the "state".

On the other hand, if your sessions keep "session cookies" -- values that
are stored in the eValid browser memory -- and in this case each eValid instance
does keep state as you would expect.

However, there is a "respawn eValid after N tests" option that may be useful
to keep the memory footprint small if you are running a large number of repeats.

Actually, 60 users is pretty easy for eValid...our results are usually based on
getting 125 at least and upwards of 200 or more, depending on RAM available.

If you could let us see a script that accurately reproduces ONE user so that
we could work with it we are confident that we can get that to run in 100's
of instances in parallel. We've encountered these issues before...sometimes it
takes some head-scratching. We've had super results doing this so far for
customers...

(Of course we need a script that accesses a site we can get to...)