WAPT Pro

Geared toward experts, WAPT Pro is an advanced software program that gives you the possibility to test the performance of websites, applications and servers by running various scenarios, compiling reports, and analyzing results.

During setup you can select one or both components you wish to install. Firstly, The WAPT Pro workplace provides the UI for test enginners and users in degining test scenarios, launching and controlling test execution, as well as analyzing results. Secondly, the load agent is necessary for servers that emulate the user activity and produce test loads. The workplace component is required for controlling all load agents.

In the following step, you can specify the port used for establishing communication between the workplace and load agents over TCP/IP, add an exception for the load agent service in the Windows Firewall for the port, and modify the default temporary files folder.

The main workplace window is large and has a well-structured layout. Since WAPT Pro can seem overwhelming to less experienced users, the tool offers to guide you in creating a new scenario with the help of a wizard for performance, stress or endurance tests, benchmarking, or background load generation.

It can automatically identify all available load agents in the local network, allowing you to edit the properties, remove them from the list, or add new once by indicating the agent name, server, port, version, IP spoofing, proxy server, or authentication details.

Web app tests can be put together by capturing typical user sessions to analyze the behavior. This can be done using any installed browser, and the sessions will be saved as virtual user profiles, since WAPT Pro creates virtual users during this time.

After tests are completed, they can be examined via log files and you can build reports after picking the level of log details. Plus, you can get a better idea of the results by looking into graphical charts which get updated in real time. Reports contain a wide range of performance parameters, such as the error rate, response time, and number of page requests per second.

Scenarios, results and logs can be saved to file, charts can be exported as images, while reports can be saved as HTML. It's possible to use a search-and-replace tool, import performance counters from files, modify the maximum waiting time for server operations and SSL version for HTTPS, add files and URLs that contain JavaScript functions to calculate parameters of requests and internal variables, enable automatic email notifications for sending HTML reports on test completion, and so on.

Unsurprisingly, WAPT Pro is high-demanding when it comes to CPU and RAM usage while running tests, which is normal. It didn't hang, crash or display error messages throughout our evaluation, though. Taking into account its rich and advanced options, it should meet the requirements of most users looking to run multipurpose benchmarks on websites, applications and servers.

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