topic Re: Performance Tester in VMS in Operating System - OpenVMS

Performance Tester in VMS

Ajay CD — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:14:33 GMT

Is there any tool available in VMS for Performance testing (like IBM rational)?

Re: Performance Tester in VMS

Hoff — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:26:11 GMT

PCA and DECdtm in the DECset package.

Re: Performance Tester in VMS

Pramod Kumar M — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:07:50 GMT

I am aware of many tools with which you can collect different kind of performance data.

To see the entire system performance you can use T4 and friends (http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/t4/)

If you have a test suite for your product you can use combination PCA and DTM to collect the performance statistics while running DTM. PCA helps to identify the hotspots in your application.

There are SDA extensions like PCS, PRF to collect the PC samples to understand which area of your code is hot.

Also there are many other tools which can help you to gather performance related data.

But I am not aware of any licensed or free tools available with which you can load the system.

Above tools would help you to collect different kind of data when you load you system may be by writing test scripts or a production environment.

-Pramod.

Re: Performance Tester in VMS

labadie_1 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:20:05 GMT

1) You can use mechanize
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
which is included in the LD images
http://www.vmspython.org/DownloadAndInstallationPython
install Python for you (see Process installation) or for everybody (see System Wide installation),

if you want to test web applications

2) you can use PTD
if you want to test "basic programs"
http://www.vmspython.org/VMSPTDExample

Re: Performance Tester in VMS

Keith Cayemberg — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:53:03 GMT

I have the following list of OpenVMS compatible Test and Performance Profiler SW. (some of these may run on an other OS but allow testing or profiling of VMS applications as a client)

DECset including...
DTM - Digital Test Manager
and
PCA - Performance and Coverage Analyzer
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/commercial/decset/decset_index.html

V-Test and V-Timer from Vedant (formerly from Cyrano and Performance Software)
http://www.vedanthealth.com/products/legacy/
http://www.vedanthealth.com/docs/VedantLegacy.pdf
NOTE: this is a welcome return of a good native OpenVMS software product to active commercialization after about 15 years of being lost in the business mergers of it's owners (I've used personally it in the mid 1990's, it's recommended)

Compuware QALoad - as external tester from Windows
http://www.compuware.com/quality.htm

DCPI - Digital Continuous Profiling Infrastructure
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/dcpi/

JRat the Java Runtime Analysis Toolkit
http://jrat.sourceforge.net/

LDRA Testbed - LDRA Tool Suite
http://www.ldra.com/testbed.asp
http://www.ldra.com/platforms.asp

OpenSTA Users Home Page - Free Web Load and Stress Testing Tool
http://opensta.org/

Parasoft - Insure++
http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/insure.jsp?itemId=63
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/partners/parasoft/index.htm
http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/release.jsp?articleId=671&type=1997

Swingbench
http://www.dominicgiles.com/swingbench.php

TMESIS Software - Snapshot and Tracer
http://www.tmesis.com/profile/profile3.htmlx

Cheers!

Keith Cayemberg

Re: Performance Tester in VMS

labadie_1 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:58:56 GMT

Keith

Thanks for the list.

It is good news to see Cyrano (now sold by Vedant) back, but from the PDF, it is available only for Vax and Alpha, and VMS versions 7.1 to 7.3

It is a pity there is not an Itanium version available, and that there is not a more recent Vms version for Alphas.

Re: Performance Tester in VMS

Art Wiens — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:15:46 GMT

Hmm ... no one remembers good old UETP? It can drive the system pretty hard ... and it's free! If you need fancy graphs and reports it's probably not the right product, but if you want to actually load test the system, it will definately do that.

Cheers,
Art

Re: Performance Tester in VMS

Ajay CD — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:34:47 GMT

Hi All, Thanks for the overwhelming response. This would definitely suffice whatever I am looking for.