I’m used to developing private applications for very small amount of concurrent users (usually no more than 10) on very good servers, so I have never been pressed about stress testing my applications. That being said, this is something I want to have a better grasp on my applications.
FYI, all of my websites are based on ASP.NET 3.5 (WebForms), NHibernate (specially interested in testing it with numerous concurrent sessions) as the ORM of choice and require Active Directory authentication.
Thanks in advance.
In a pinch, you could do a selenium RC cluster with multiple machines logged in as different users running IE. Come to think of it, that is perhaps the most realistic test if you have the boxes to pull it off . . .