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AWBot project
https://github.com/eldy/awbot

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------------- AWBot --------------

         Advanced Web Bot

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Advanced Web Bot (AWBot) is an easy tool to emulate a visitor activity on a

web server. It allows you to prepare some "configuration" of test (list of

actions to do before and after a test, list of URLs to test with the

expected or unexpected result). You can use then this configuration files

for several major goals:

- Test a change in your web server (development, new web server version...)

to be sure that all your site is still working

- Found broken links

- Make benchmarks and/or found the maximum number of users your site can

support

- etc...



License: GNU GPL (GNU General Public License. See LICENSE file)

Version : 1.1

Release date: October 2005

Platforms: All (Linux, BSD, Solaris and other *NIX's, NT, BeOS, OS/2...)

Author: Laurent Destailleur 

AWBot official web site and latest version: http://awbot.sourceforge.net



I   - Features and requirements of AWBot

	  I - 1) Features, what AWBot can do

	  I - 2) Requirements for using AWBot

	  I - 3) Files

II  - How to use AWBot

III - About the author, license and support



I - FEATURES AND REQUIREMENTS

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I - 1) Features



	* Support sites requiring Basic HTTP authentication.

	* Support HTTPS web sites.

	* Can make different pre-post tasks before-after a test (external script, SQL commands...).

	* Can check each HTML page resulting of HTTP requests to verify if contents contains/does not contains particular keywords or to extract values.

	* URL or params to use in test can be dynamically defined (using values catched from previous page).

	* A multi-session test launcher to run several simultaneous tests for load benchmarking.

	* Report errors, response time for each page and average response time.

	* A lot of other feature to match your test needs.

	* Absolutely free with sources (GNU General Public License)

	* AWBot has a XML Portable Application Description.



I - 2) Requirements



	To use AWBot, you need the following requirements:

	* Your operating system must be able to run perl scripts (.pl files).

	  If not, you can solve this by downloading last Perl version at:

	  http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/ (Win32)

	  http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html (Unix/Linux/Other)

	* The following perl modules must also be installed:

	  Time::HiRes

	  



I - 3) Files



	The distribution of AWBot package includes the following files:

	README.TXT                          This file

	docs/LICENSE                        GNU General Public Licence

	docs/*                              AWBot documentation (setup/usage...)

	bin/awbot.pl                        AWBot main script

	bin/awbotlauncher.pl                AWBot launcher to launch several

	                                    simultaneous sessions

	bin/awbot.test.conf                 An example of AWBot test/config file



II - HOW TO INSTALL AND USE AWBOT

---------------------------------



The documentation available as of the date of this release is included, in

HTML format, in the docs/ directory.

You can find a most up-to-date documentation on:

http://awbot.sourceforge.net



III - ABOUT THE AUTHOR, LICENSE AND SUPPORT

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Copyright (C) 2000-2005 - Laurent Destailleur - [email protected]



This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.



This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details, in COPYING.TXT file.



If you have not received a copy of this file along with this program, write to

the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,

59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.