Simple tool for web server benchmarking?

Question

I want to make some simple load tests for a web application.

I remember one of the tools I have seen in a stage and I liked a lot was Selenium, but it is intended for developing use cases for testing user interface of web application.

My needs are simpler, simulate concurrent users. I have seen Apache Benchmark 'ab' but one thing I would like to do is simulate a scenario where we begin with 5 users and make increments of 10, 15 ... until we reach 50 users (increments each 10 seconds, by example).

Do you recommend a simple tool for this use case?

Regards

Answer 1

you may like curl-loader which supports customed number of users per-second and test different URLs.

there's another tool named siege, which is quite similar to ab(apache benchmark), have a try.

Answer 2

I have chosen JMeter. It is not as simple as ab from Apache or httperf, but it isn't a complicated tool.

In the JMeter docs we can see a simple tutorial for doing web load tests. For the scenario for incrementing user number there is the configuration Ramp-Up Period which tells JMeter how long to delay between starting each user.