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bin | 2010-01-20 | eldy <> | [0b4be7] Fix: Remove warnings |
docs | 2013-11-27 | Laurent Destailleur | [04b74b] Fix: typo and permissions |
make | 2010-12-02 | eldy <> | [adf613] Update pad file |
tools | 2013-11-27 | Laurent Destailleur | [04b74b] Fix: typo and permissions |
.cvsignore | 2007-03-06 | eldy <> | [e2b77d] Update documentation |
.project | 2009-11-13 | eldy <> | [7d7a0c] Add perl nature to project |
README.TXT | 2005-10-16 | eldy <> | [a9d973] Update documentation |
git2cvs.sh | 2013-11-03 | Laurent Destailleur | [4491e3] Add git2cvs.sh file |
------------- AWBot -------------- Advanced Web Bot ---------------------------------- Advanced Web Bot (AWBot) is an easy tool to emulate a visitor activity on a web server. It allows you to prepare some "configuration" of test (list of actions to do before and after a test, list of URLs to test with the expected or unexpected result). You can use then this configuration files for several major goals: - Test a change in your web server (development, new web server version...) to be sure that all your site is still working - Found broken links - Make benchmarks and/or found the maximum number of users your site can support - etc... License: GNU GPL (GNU General Public License. See LICENSE file) Version : 1.1 Release date: October 2005 Platforms: All (Linux, BSD, Solaris and other *NIX's, NT, BeOS, OS/2...) Author: Laurent Destailleur <eldy@users.sourceforge.net> AWBot official web site and latest version: http://awbot.sourceforge.net I - Features and requirements of AWBot I - 1) Features, what AWBot can do I - 2) Requirements for using AWBot I - 3) Files II - How to use AWBot III - About the author, license and support I - FEATURES AND REQUIREMENTS ------------------------------------ I - 1) Features * Support sites requiring Basic HTTP authentication. * Support HTTPS web sites. * Can make different pre-post tasks before-after a test (external script, SQL commands...). * Can check each HTML page resulting of HTTP requests to verify if contents contains/does not contains particular keywords or to extract values. * URL or params to use in test can be dynamically defined (using values catched from previous page). * A multi-session test launcher to run several simultaneous tests for load benchmarking. * Report errors, response time for each page and average response time. * A lot of other feature to match your test needs. * Absolutely free with sources (GNU General Public License) * AWBot has a XML Portable Application Description. I - 2) Requirements To use AWBot, you need the following requirements: * Your operating system must be able to run perl scripts (.pl files). If not, you can solve this by downloading last Perl version at: http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/ (Win32) http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html (Unix/Linux/Other) * The following perl modules must also be installed: Time::HiRes I - 3) Files The distribution of AWBot package includes the following files: README.TXT This file docs/LICENSE GNU General Public Licence docs/* AWBot documentation (setup/usage...) bin/awbot.pl AWBot main script bin/awbotlauncher.pl AWBot launcher to launch several simultaneous sessions bin/awbot.test.conf An example of AWBot test/config file II - HOW TO INSTALL AND USE AWBOT --------------------------------- The documentation available as of the date of this release is included, in HTML format, in the docs/ directory. You can find a most up-to-date documentation on: http://awbot.sourceforge.net III - ABOUT THE AUTHOR, LICENSE AND SUPPORT ------------------------------------------- Copyright (C) 2000-2005 - Laurent Destailleur - eldy@users.sourceforge.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details, in COPYING.TXT file. If you have not received a copy of this file along with this program, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.