OpenSTA

Type of web server benchmarking utility

OpenSTA
Developer(s)	CYRANO

Stable release	1.4.4 / October 19, 2007 (2007-10-19)

Written in	C++
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Load Testing
License	GNU General Public License 2.0
Website	opensta.org

OpenSTA is a feature-rich GUI-based web server benchmarking utility that can perform scripted HTTP and HTTPS heavy load tests with performance measurements.^[1] It is freely available and distributable under the open source GNU General Public License. OpenSTA currently only runs on Microsoft Windows-based operating systems.

Scripts are recorded in a proprietary language called "SCL". It is a fairly simple coding language that provides support for custom functions, variable scopes, and random or sequential lists.

OpenSTA was originally written by Cyrano. Cyrano's intentions were to write commercial plug in modules and support for OpenSTA for performance testing non-web applications.

Note that the most recent version posted on the OpenSTA home page is 1.4.4, released 27 Oct, 2007.

References

^ "Open Testware Reviews: OpenSTA (Open System Testing Architecture)". Tejas Software Consulting. 2003. Retrieved 2008-09-25.

External links

OpenSTA on SourceForge

Processing benchmarks

Concepts

Free software
Proprietary software
Performance per watt
Data center infrastructure efficiency
Giga-updates per second (memory)
CPU power dissipation

Organizations

BAPCo consortium
EEMBC
Futuremark
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)

Processor

Floating-point unit (FLOPS)	SPECfp LINPACK LAPACK Prime95 Super PI SuperPrime Whetstone IBM iSeries benchmarks (Computational Intensive Workload)
Integer (ALU)	Dhrystone Fhourstones SPECint CoreMark
Digital signal processor (DSP)	BTDi
Graphics processing unit (GPU)	BRL-CAD
Parallel computing	DEISA Benchmark Suite Livermore loops NAS Parallel Benchmarks HPC Challenge Benchmark Princeton Application Repository for Shared-Memory Computers (PARSEC)

Peripherals

Network	BreakingPoint Systems SUPS
Filesystems and storage	Bonnie++ HD Tach IOzone Diskspd
Computer memory	BSS Random Access benchmark HPC Challenge Random Memory Access
Input/output	Iometer Ioblazer IBM iSeries benchmarks (Commercial Processing Workload)

Computer system (entire)

Hierarchical INTegration (HINT)
NBench (CPU, memory)

Energy consumption

Software

JavaScript engine	Browser speed test
Cryptography	Cycles per byte
Multiuser system	SDET AIM Multiuser Benchmark
Virtual machine	VMmark SPECvirt
Physics engine	Physics Abstraction Layer API Bench
Recursion performance	Tak (function)
Database transactions	TATP Benchmark Transaction Processing over XML (TPoX) YCSB (NoSQL)
Web server benchmarking	Apache JMeter Curl-loader httperf OpenSTA TPC-W Tsung
X Window System	Xmark93