A while back I was tasked with coming up with a way to do stress testing for AMF. I looked at a bunch of tools, and a couple in particular. Those being curl-loader, httperf and JMeter. The only tool out of the box that supported “arbitrary binary support” was JMeter. AMF is sent in an HTTP request as arbitrary binary, not a regular multipart upload. Which is cool, but not many tools support that.

Anyway, I’m going to keep this short – here is a rough set of tools that will get you stress testing your AMF gateways. Make sure to read the “readme” in the zip file, this has enough instruction on the different tools, and the source for it all, so you can read through it, alter it, use it to your advantage.

Also, the capture client only works with SSR right now, but I’ve included the source for everything so you could go in and update the part that I left out which was support for Remote Object. It shouldn’t be a ton of work, sorry I couldn’t get that done.

I’ll be watching the RubyAMF mailing list for any help requests / questions about this. Hopefully this is really straight forward, and the readme does a pretty good job of explaining what’s going on with everything.

Enjoy.