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AndrewMC
AndrewMC

Reputation: 271

How do i test my application for network perfomance while only having a single PC?

Assume I have built high available and high reliable application. Now I need to test it for network performance. But I have only a single desktop computer at home. How do I test my application for network performance?

Is there an app that will create virtual clients and create a virtual network environment (but all clients are not humans except me) so I could create a network of 100 machines virtually from my single desktop??????

If there are apps like that, how many of them available for free?

My desktop runs on windows 8

thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 161

Answers (3)

James Pulley
James Pulley

Reputation: 5692

IF you want to model a virtual network in a box then look to Shunra. You can usually pick up used Shunra devices on EBAY for a fraction of their initial cost and their value for testing purposes. You can model very accurately complex network infrastructures with their devices and then alter routing on your box to go out one IP address from a Virtual machine, traverse the complex network of delays and route back to your service on the same box.

If you want something less than investing in hardware, then take a look at Charles Proxy. It's a great piece of software that would allow you from a couple of hosts to look at the behavior across an impaired link with particular characteristics. You can also alter some of the caching characteristics of the application in the proxy to see how this alters your perceived performance.

If you just want to model your data flows for the application then take a look at IxChariot (from Ixia Communications) and pair it with Shunra. You could crank up the number of dataflows and see what happens purely to the network response times independent of the performance of the application

Upvotes: 0

Oscar Bralo
Oscar Bralo

Reputation: 1907

You mean for example like test if you have some concurrence problems trhowing a lot of calls to your service from different threads?

You can try, Jmeter. It´s free, and you can configure for example to run 10 tests, and run all the tests at the same time from 10 different threads.

Is a good ay to simulate x number of calls ;)

I am not sure, but I believe that with SoapUI you can do more or less the same too

Upvotes: 2

lukas
lukas

Reputation: 58

You could use Virtual Machines (for example VirtualBox) and run them on your single machine.

Upvotes: 0

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