Determining Network Time in Watir Scripts

By this I mean I wanted to determine how much network and server time was spent processing a request initiated by a Watir script. Server time as defined by time to first buffer and network time as time to last buffer (minus the first).

I couldn’t really do this from Ruby itself, so I installed Fiddler. [...]

Faking it! (UDP packets that is…)

An associate of mine recently wanted a load script that could simulate thousands of UDP packets carrying a custom payload coming from different IP addresses. They were implementing a customised RFID solution that needed to simulate load from a lot of sources (think active RFID tags).

There are many different ways you can accomplish this, solutions [...]