Re: Windows User Simulation Tool

Mickey Lane wrote:
> Are there any notes on this? What it does? How to use it?

The original author, David Tanner, presented on the tool at the 2006
Best Practices Workshop.

As with most of OpenAFS, the command line usage text and the source code
are the documentation.  In brief:

  wintorture.exe is a scripting engine that creates multiple threads
  executing the scripted instructions provided by the specified
  script.

  stress.exe manages multiple instances of wintorture.exe and
  coordinates the compilation of statistics from each of them
  upon completion.

  stopstress.exe permits you to pause, resume, and stop
  all tests.

  Sample scripts are provided in the tests/torture/clients directory.

> Also - I don't see anything that looks like GUI code in or around the src/WINNT/tests area.

The UI is called StressUI and apparently David didn't include its source
in the contribution.  I've posted a screenshot at

  http://www.secure-endpoints.com/images/stressui.png

It really is just a guified version of stress.exe.  Reproducing it
should not take more than an hour or so.  I didn't notice because I
never used the tool.  Command line scripting is more powerful.