![]() When building client centric Web applications almost everything becomes an API and since I prefer to design my APIs up front before there is any Application UI to test it, some sort of testing tool is required. I use WebSurge for all my API testing to test individual URLs interactively. WebSurge and Meįor me personally I've been using WebSurge in just about any Web project I've created in the last year and it's been especially useful in API projects. The easiest way to install West Wind WebSurge is through Chocolatey: choco install westwindwebsurgeīut you can also download the installer directly from the download link and then run the embedded installer exe. Or take a peak at the functionality available in this YouTube walk-through video: You can download and find out more about West Wind WebSurge from these links: So, today I'm happy to announce that I've released version 1.0 of West Wind WebSurge after a lengthy beta period. Even starting from scratch you should be able to start running tests in a couple of minutes. The main goal of the front end piece is to make it super quick and easy to capture or create URLs for tests, store and save them so that you can easily create repeatable tests, that you will actually run on a regular basis. WebSurge stores the test information in plain text files that can be shared easily in projects or source code repositories and can be easily generated by tools. The end result of this was West Wind WebSurge which is a Windows based application that makes it very easy to enter and capture URLs and then play them back either individually for functionality testing of individual URLs or under heavy load for performing stress testing. What started out as a requirement on a client project, quickly morphed into a custom load testing library and then eventually into a product that combines the load engine with an easy to use UI to make it easy to create the URLs and run the tests. I wanted an interactive tool that makes it easy to set up and test URLs either individually or under load. I created this tool out of a sense of frustration with existing stress testing tools that are either wickedly expensive, or a pain in the butt to use. About a year ago I introduced an easy to use URL and load testing tool called West Wind WebSurge.
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