I recently downloaded Web Surge (which is great, BTW) and I was using it to test some of my VFP web services just to get a feel for how it works. In running one of my tests, I noticed the counter that gets incremented in the status bar at the bottom of the screen was showing a larger number than the Total Requests displayed in the Test Results of the Output tab after the test is finished running. Also, the particular web service method I was testing actually writes a record to a DBF file for each request, and that number was also larger than the Total Requests displayed in the Output tab. Here are the numbers I received:
- Output tab: 617
- Last number observed in the status bar while the test was running: 753
- Number of records written to my DBF: 774
Any idea why the Total Requests in the Output tab would be displaying a smaller value than what it appears it should be?
I think what you're probably seeing is the warm up requests which aren't counted. WebSurge runs for a timeout you specify before requests are counted.
Great, thank you--that makes perfect sense.
Jon
FWIW the latest update to WebSurge does a better job of completely separating out the warm up requests from the final test. When you run the test you'll see a separate count for the Warm up, which then resets and starts over when the full test runs.
The issue previously was - especially on short tests where the extra seconds really mattered - the request counts and summaries shown on the statusbar would be different than what would show in the final report. With the changes these numbers should now be in sync.
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