ot: testing my site

Slightly off topic perhaps. I want to test my database providers and connections in 2 controllers by simulating multiple users hitting 2 different pages (each on a different controller) simultaneously. How could you set this up? I want to check for thread safety issues etc. I can't run 2 browser sessions myself exactly at the same time.

Re: ot: testing my site

What technologies are you familiar with? There's LoadRunner, Web Application Stress Test, Application Center Test (?), and others out there...

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I think I used Application Center Test a few years ago. I don't care about loading, I am much more interested in timing. I need to control when requests hit different pages. If I could get 5 requests on one page, and 5 on another, at the same time, that's what I need. The tool should be free. Do you know of anything that will do this?

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Threading is an ugly beast.

The only way to truly test threading issues is to run stress tests for a sufficient amount of time without seeing any issues. Even then you can only be "convinced" that there's nothing wrong. The longer you run with no error the more convincing it gets.

If you know the lines of code which might have problems running in multiple threads you might be better off writing your own stress test app and testing the code directly. instead of wasting time with the whole web stuff.