Re: Performance Expectations

Are other requests taking this long? If not, it may well be happening  
inside Tomcat.  Generally, if I am worried about speed and I am  
specifically testing servlets, I will use ServletRunner and bypass the  
web server entirely.

On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Andy Meneely wrote:

> Hello,
>  We've been using HTTPUnit in our Software Engineering class for a  
> few years now, and we're pretty happy with it. However, our http  
> tests are pretty slow. We know that the system itself is not  
> particularly slow - our regular unit tests pass quickly and the  
> application itself is not slow. In particular, our login utility  
> method seems to be a major contributor:
>
> public WebConversation login(String username, String password)  
> throws Exception {
> //...some code...
> WebConversation wc = new WebConversation();
> WebResponse loginResponse = wc.getResponse(ADDRESS);
>
> WebForm form = loginResponse.getForms()[0];
> form.setParameter("j_username", username);
> form.setParameter("j_password", password);
>
> WebResponse homePage = loginResponse.getForms()[0].submit();
> //....more code...
>
> This chunk of code takes 3-4 seconds each time. Each of the two http  
> requests are about 1.5-2 seconds. For a 120 tests it takes about  
> 8-10 minutes. We'd really like to speed it up if we can.
>
> We're using Tomcat as our server. I've tried things like disabling  
> "acceptGZip", disabling scripting (which is not always an option),  
> and accepting images as an alt text - no change. Am I missing a  
> parameter I can tune? Is there a way I can further diagnose the  
> problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
>    -Andy
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