DLARLICK
July 16th, 2003, 03:10 PM
Hi Gurus-
I am looking into performance tuning and stress testing prior to implementation on of an ASP application on an intranet residing on an IIS server and on SQL server in a wide area network.
IIS 5, Server 2000, and SQL Server 2000 ASP and C# stuff.
Tools currently available to me.
Microsoft ACT Application Center Test
CompuWare's Application Expert
Performance Manager
Rational Team Test (Robot)
I have been asked to look into performance tuning and load times for the application.
1. It has been requested that we record the load times from each seperate page in the site. Information must be kept relating to each page load times for comparison to future versions of the application.
This to me seems to be done with a stopwatch and a physical human. A tool I found to do this is DUMeter combined with the TweakMaster (? tweaktester).
Open to any suggestions and additional comments that may help me disuade people from this data collection. (Seems more appropriate to measure latency distinctly through the network analysis tool)
2. Is the ACT software provided with .NET installable without IIS being installed on the desktop / client?
3. Is there an ability in ACT to export data for correlation of data from different sites.
(Again I think I would be testing latency not server performance)
Comments are encouraged... se question 1.
4. I have purchased "Performance Testing .Net Web Applications" by MS Press. What other references might be available on Performance testing?
5. Can ACT be used to accurately test page load times?
6. Any other suggestions for a rudimentary path that should be taken on the first intranet project to attempt any sort of performance / tuning of it's application for an organization.
(We have tight deadlines and it looks like it can get quite complicated due to whatever calculations / metrics you decide to work with. I am looking for rules of thumb)
You may find alot of mistakes here.
Thanks for your help!
-David
:rolleyes:
I am looking into performance tuning and stress testing prior to implementation on of an ASP application on an intranet residing on an IIS server and on SQL server in a wide area network.
IIS 5, Server 2000, and SQL Server 2000 ASP and C# stuff.
Tools currently available to me.
Microsoft ACT Application Center Test
CompuWare's Application Expert
Performance Manager
Rational Team Test (Robot)
I have been asked to look into performance tuning and load times for the application.
1. It has been requested that we record the load times from each seperate page in the site. Information must be kept relating to each page load times for comparison to future versions of the application.
This to me seems to be done with a stopwatch and a physical human. A tool I found to do this is DUMeter combined with the TweakMaster (? tweaktester).
Open to any suggestions and additional comments that may help me disuade people from this data collection. (Seems more appropriate to measure latency distinctly through the network analysis tool)
2. Is the ACT software provided with .NET installable without IIS being installed on the desktop / client?
3. Is there an ability in ACT to export data for correlation of data from different sites.
(Again I think I would be testing latency not server performance)
Comments are encouraged... se question 1.
4. I have purchased "Performance Testing .Net Web Applications" by MS Press. What other references might be available on Performance testing?
5. Can ACT be used to accurately test page load times?
6. Any other suggestions for a rudimentary path that should be taken on the first intranet project to attempt any sort of performance / tuning of it's application for an organization.
(We have tight deadlines and it looks like it can get quite complicated due to whatever calculations / metrics you decide to work with. I am looking for rules of thumb)
You may find alot of mistakes here.
Thanks for your help!
-David
:rolleyes: