Load-testing
Just came across “flood”:http://httpd.apache.org/test/flood/ via “this Linux Journal article”:http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6691. There’s another introductory article “here”:http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/10825_2216741_1. From the descriptions, it shows promise as a testing tool for web applications. It can parse page responses and grab data from them to use in future submissions. Cookie handling. Proxy access. It can coordinate testing across multiple machines and tie together all the data afterwards.