Welcome to the HTTP/S Load under OpenSTA

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Congratulations on choosing the HTTP/S Load under OpenSTA.

HTTP/S Load is an ideal tool for performance testing Web Application Environments (WAEs). It supplies versatile software that enables you to create and run HTTP/S load Tests and production monitoring Tests to help evaluate target systems. Use it to assess the performance of WAEs before launch or after modifications to Web services.

HTTP/S Load enables you to run Tests against the same target system within both load testing and production monitoring scenarios. Tests can include an HTTP/S load element to help you evaluate the performance of WAEs during development. Tests can also be used to monitor and collect performance data from WAEs after they go live within a production scenario. Results data is collected during Test-runs and can be displayed for analysis during or after a Test-run, enabling you to directly compare the performance of a target system within these two environments.

Having a reliable Web site is an absolute requirement to compete in the e-market place and the only way to ensure this is to thoroughly test it before launch. HTTP/S Load provides you with a versatile solution to this requirement.

OpenSTA - Open System Testing Architecture

HTTP/S Load is built on the OpenSTA Architecture, which is an Open Source system testing architecture, built around the Object Management Group's CORBA standard. It provides the foundations for building an integrated and comprehensive modular testing environment for WAEs. OpenSTA performance testing methodology is based on the OpenSTA Architecture and additional OpenSTA Modules, which will encompass the full range of WAE performance testing requirements.

OpenSTA allows you to enhance the scope of your performance tests by installing additional OpenSTA Modules to test and analyze the components of your WAEs. OpenSTA enables you to integrate all the elements of your performance tests and to develop a coordinated and systematic approach to testing and results analysis. This approach allows the implementation of testing methodologies which enable you to produce accurate results on which to develop strategies for enhancing the performance of your WAEs.

For more information visit http://opensta.org/, http://opensta.com/ and http://cyrano.com/.

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Introduction