WebLoader (~ WebClient) *NEW*

WebLoader is multithreadable Framework for testing/measuring Web-Applications in terms of Performance and their behaviour under Load.
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The measuring capabilities consist out of tracking following data for each Web-Request (HTTP/S):

• "StartTimeInMs" - Time in milliseconds when the request was fired
  
• "StartTimeInXls" - Time in excel compatible format ("dd.MM.yy HH:mm:ss") when the request was fired
• "SendDuration" - Duration of time spend for sending data - Number would be probably around 0 in most cases
  
• "ReturnState" - ResponseCode + ResponseMessage returned by the target Server
  
• "PageTitle" - Determinated PageTitle (Data between <title> and </title>)
  
• "LocationField" - Location-Field of ReturnHeader
  
• "BodySize" - Payload-Size in bytes of Response received
  
• "CompleteDuration" - Time spend between Start of sending Request and reading Response completly

This measured data tracked aggregated in logfiles enables analyses of the performance and stability of the tested Web-Application.

The WebLoader-Framework is based on the WebClient Tooling-Library through loader-files (see: WebLoader Syntax and usage), which is designed to automate access to Web-Applications and track several corresponding data.
The WebClient mainly interprets so-called command-files written in its own Scripting-Language: "Web-Command-Language" (WCL).

As you can see (here: WebClient Syntax and usage) the used scripting-language is quite powerful and easy-to-use to automate almost anything:
You can read/retrieve/get pages, read/manipulate/set cookies, log/store interessting values/data in variables/files, group/separate commands in its own task, include another command-file, reuse/transform stored values and much more.

The following figure visualizes the relationship between the two different components (WebLoader, WebClient) and their individual subjects:



Apart from this scripting capabilities you surely can use the API directly from an application.
The easy-to-use JavaDoc is included in the downloadable container-file (.zip) itself.

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