Re: [OpenSTA-devel] Open Source Load Testing

[Corey G. <cgo...@ea...>]

fine by me for my parts :)



-----Original Message-----
>From: "Antony Marcano (etest associates)" <an...@et...>
>Sent: Apr 16, 2007 6:52 AM
>To: 'OpenSTA developer discussions' <ope...@li...>
>Subject: Re: [OpenSTA-devel] Open Source Load Testing
>
>Can I post this (verbatim) on testingReflactions?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ope...@li... [mailto:opensta-devel-
>> bo...@li...] On Behalf Of Daniel Sutcliffe
>> Sent: 16 April 2007 02:09
>> To: OpenSTA Developer Discussions
>> Subject: Re: [OpenSTA-devel] Open Source Load Testing
>> 
>> I had to smile when I read the first line of the press release:
>> > RadView Launches World's First Commercial-Grade Open Source
>> > Internet Performance Testing Product into $1 Billion Market
>> 
>> First? ... really? :)
>> 
>> Reading more we have:
>> > Companies that require commercial support, additional productivity
>> > features and compatibility with third-party protocols have the
>> > option of purchasing WebLOAD Professional directly from RadView.
>> 
>> So, their intentions are "exactly" the same as Cyrano's were back in
>> 2000 ;)  Here's where you can find out what those "additional
>> productivity features" are:
>>   http://www.radview.com/product/Editions-Comparison.aspx
>> The biggy is that you need to go to the commercial version if you
>> want to do distributed load generation.
>> 
>> When we took a tool that was about to be released commercially and
>> decided to open source it, the big issue was the commercial
>> libraries that were used and had to be ripped out - this effectively
>> meant taking a number of steps backwards and destabilizing a fairly
>> stable product base.  I wonder if RadView had similar hurdles?
>> 
>> Corey Goldberg wrote:
>> > There doesn't seem to be a huge number of developers interested in
>> > perf/load tools as has been seen in other Open Source tool
>> > communities (OpenSTA, JMeter, Grinder, etc).
>> 
>> This is my #1 theory of what is stopping OpenSTA becoming more
>> successful, getting better, and progressing as a project.  There
>> simply aren't developers out there who have to regularly do
>> performance testing (and therefore are driven to get involved).
>> The people regularly doing performance testing either don't have
>> the time to get involved in development or don't have a skillset
>> that allows them to do it.  WebLoad will have the advantage here in
>> the fact that RadView will be sponsoring developers (presumably
>> their developers) to work on the open source tool - just like
>> Cyrano did with OpenSTA until it all fell to pieces ...
>> 
>> > possibly since this is starting from such a mature code base it
>> > could be different.. but who knows.
>> 
>> Much of OpenSTAs code was very very mature commercial code before
>> it was "released" as OpenSTA - some would say this was less than
>> helpful ;)
>> 
>> The cynic in me suspects that RadView are doing this because they
>> realise they are losing too many sales due to the availibility of
>> tools like OpenSTA.  Better to at least get there potential customers
>> on the right track ...
>> 
>> As to whether this can help or hinder the future of OpenSTA ...
>> I personally can't see it helping, it will dilute an already
>> weak potential developer pool - maybe some code and ideas could be
>> shared but I don't think we're lacking any code, ideas, or available
>> libraries (open source ones) as it stands, just the developer time
>> (or funding) to improve OpenSTA is what is really lacking. :shrug:
>> 
>> I'll be following WebLoad to see what happens.
>> Cheers
>> /dan
>> --
>> Daniel Sutcliffe <DanSut@OpenSTA.org>
>>   OpenSTA part-time caretaker - http://OpenSTA.org/
>> 
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