Welcome

New httest 1.13.3 released on 11. November 2009

Short Description

HTTP Test Tool is a script based tool for testing and benchmarking web applications, web servers, proxy servers and web browsers.

httest can emulate clients and servers even in the same test script. Emulating servers is a unique feature, very usefull for testing proxy servers, web browsers and HTTP clients.

The main parts of the HTTP test tool are under the Apache License Version 2.0.

Features

• HTTP server client simulation
• Request/response validation
• Cut and paste from request/response
• Execute shell commands and use output in HTTP stream
• NTLM authentication tool
• Basic authentication

Components

• httest - main programm
• htproxy - generate httest scripts
• htntlm - enable ntlm in your httest scripts
• hturlext - extracts url from html (GNU General Public License 2.0)
• htremote - enable interactive scripts in your httest scripts

Use Cases

• UseCaseErrorReporting
• UseCaseFeatureSpezification
• UseCaseProxyServerTesting
• UseCaseWebAppTesting
• UseCaseWebBrowserTesting
• UseCaseWebServerTesting
• UseCaseWebServiceIntegrationTesting
• UseCaseWebServiceMonitoring
• UseCaseWebServiceStressing

Remarks

• Windows binary can be build with Visual Studio Express, the project file can be found on neophob
• If some one know how to build a cygwin binary please drop a mail to ia97lies at users.sourceforge.net

Projects and Companies Using HTTP Test Tool

• mod_qos
• mod_auth_oid
• mod_parp
• cwiki

If you are using httest and like to appear in the list above, drop me a mail (ia97lies at users.sourceforge.net)

Links

• Open source software testing tools
• Softpedia Award
• GearDownload.com

TODO

• httest: _CLOSE within a threaded SERVER do not work, it closes the listener

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