Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool 1.1

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Installation Notes
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Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool requires Microsoft
Windows NT version 4.0 Service Pack 4 or above and Microsoft
Internet Explorer version 4.0 or above.

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Online Support
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To check for the latest news and updates regarding this tool
you can go to the web site http://webtool.rte.microsoft.com.
This web site contains a knowledge base that provides
in-depth answers to performance testing questions and
additional information on the most frequently asked
questions.

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Known Issues
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Web Application Stress Tool only supports stress against one
server or DNS name at a time.
To use authentication, you must add users with valid user
names and passwords.
To record, you will need to modify your browser settings if
using a browser other than, or prior to, IE 5.0. See online
help for more information.
Webtool respects the "user-agent: stress-agent" directive in
the ROBOTS.TXT file on a web server and will not start a
stress test against a server or domain that contains this
file with this directive. This file should be located in
the root directory of your web site

In general, you should NOT install the WebTool service on
the web server you are testing since this may interfere with
your results.

The Web Application Stress Tool object model can be used to
start, stop, and configure a test run.  However, this feature
cannot be used to modify a running test in this version of
the tool.

Web Application Stress Tool is year 2000 compliant.

IMPORTANT: Start your test with a small number of
Concurrent Connections and then work your way up to the
desired stress level slowly, watching the processor
utilization on the clients and web server. If the
processor utilization is consistently above 90% on one or
more machines, the test is probably invalid. If this
occurs, decrease the number of concurrent connections or
add more client machines to handle the desired stress load.

On-line help contains a discussion of performance testing
techniques.

Although there is no hard limit on the number of script
items you can have in one script, the most practical limit
is 3000 script items. Beyond that you will find that it
takes an inordinately long time to start and stop tests.

System Requirements of Enterprise Library 4.1

For all application blocks except for the Unity Application Block, the Enterprise Library core features, and the configuration tools, the minimum requirements are:

Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Vista operating system
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 or later
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 development system (any of the following editions):
Standard Edition
Professional Edition
Team Edition for Software Developers
Team Edition for Software Testers
Team Edition for Software Architects
Team Suite

Note:
The Unity Application Block is a general-purpose dependency injection mechanism designed for use in applications that run on the .NET Framework 2.0 and later. It is not limited to use only within Enterprise Library. For details of the system requirements and development software requirements for the Unity Application Block, see System Requirements for the Unity Application Block.

To run the Unit Tests, the following is also required:

Visual Studio 2008 Professional or Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition. Enterprise Library includes both unit test binaries and source code. You need a version of Visual Studio that supports unit tests. For instructions about how to use the unit tests, see Unit Tests. If you modify the unit test source, you will need to recompile it, which also requires Visual Studio 2008 Professional or Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition.
For the Data Access Application Block, the following is also required:

A database server running a database that is supported by a .NET Framework 3.5 data provider. This includes SQL Server 2000 or later, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, and Oracle 9i or later. The database server can also run a database that is supported by the .NET Framework 3.5 data providers for OLE DB or ODBC.
For the Logging Application Block, the following is also required:

Stores to maintain log messages. If you are using the MsmqTraceListener trace listener to store log messages, you need a message queue. If you are using the DatabaseTraceListener trace listener to store log messages, you need a database server. If you are using the EmailTraceListener trace listener to store log messages, you need an SMTP server.

System Requirements of Vista

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition

• The .NET Framework 3.0 tools and samples contained in this SDK are designed to work on Windows Vista or on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 with the .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components installed. If you do not have the .NET Framework 3.0 components installed, some samples, tools, and other SDK functionality will not work properly on the down-level operating systems.
• Hard disk space. Choose a disk drive with a minimum of 2.0 GB of free space.
• We highly recommend you have your machine fully patched through Microsoft Update before beginning Setup.