http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=914786


in reply to Wisdom on how to build a "stressful simulation test" with Selenium & POE

A while back, I experimented with a somewhat similar idea using Genetic Algorithms. I took the basic ideas from:

http://www.sigchi.org/chi96/proceedings/papers/Kasik/djk_txt.htm

In the end, I found that it was way to slow to generate useful test results without building a small supercomputer cluster to massively parallelize the problem. If it was just a static HTML site, you might be able to do it, but handling JavaScript greatly increases the memory requirements.


"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.