Mukesh alerted me to a problem with the Perl conversion script (that converts the XML produced by the Grinder recorder into a Jython file). It wasn’t parsing all the parameters in a GET request properly. I’ve fixed the bug and uploaded a new version of the script. You can download it here.
Category: Python
Writing Performance Tests in Grinder using a Framework
This project is now available on GitHub. Before reading this tutorial (if you haven’t already), please took at look at my last two tutorials (Performance Testing using The Grinder and Anatomy of a Grinder test-script). In this tutorial I’ll talk about easily writing Grinder test-scripts using a framework I designed. As a disclaimer, I’d like…
Anatomy of a Grinder test-script
This is my second post regarding Grinder. In this post I’ll go over the anatomy of a recorder Grinder test-script. If you haven’t read my previous post, please take a look at it. Otherwise this post won’t make much sense! High-level structure of a Grinder script The high-level structure of a recorded Grinder-test-script looks like…
Performance testing using The Grinder
About a month ago at work, I was trying out a bunch of different performance-testing tools to figure out which one to use to performance-test our software. I ended up discovering a tool called The Grinder which uses Jython to build performance-testing scripts that you can then use to test your application. I even built…