Pylot (Python Load Tester) - Web Performance Tool

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Pylot is a tool for testing the performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning. Pylot generates concurrent load (HTTP Requests), verifies server responses, and produces reports with metrics. Tests suites are executed and monitored from a GUI.

Components:

• Pylot Engine and CLI: Python 2.5+
• Pylot GUI (optional): wxPythton
• Pylot Results Graphing (optional): Matplotlib

Current Features:

• HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) support
• multi-threaded load generator
• automatic cookie handling
• response verification with regular expressions
• execution/monitoring console
• real-time stats
• results reports with graphs
• custom timers
• GUI mode
• shell/console modes
• cross-platform

Author/Maintainer:

• Corey Goldberg - http://www.goldb.org