Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) Tutorial

Question

I'm finding it very difficult to find any decent tutorials on how to get up and running with WCAT quickly. Does anyone have a link to a decent tutorial on it that they found useful when trying to get to grips with WCAT?

Answer 1

For me the best thing that I used to get going with WCAT was to get their "sample" running, which tied to a base IIS installation with a single file.

Once I got that done, i found that the help documentation was very easy to understand, it is just the initial setup that was tricky.

Otherwise, this blog posting is pretty straightforward as well.

Answer 2

Just another option that helped me getting into this:

Using the WCAT Fiddler Extension.

This extension automatically generates all the necessary files and also calls them for you.

If you want to understand what's going behind the scenes, a good starting point for me was to use Process Explorer to see which files the Fiddler extension generates and how it calls them.

Answer 3

Somehow the WCAT Fiddler Extension was not working on my side and does not support POST so I decided to create my own. I shared the source code on github just incase your interested.

Here's the link: https://github.com/francischie/FiddlerWCAT