Finally did the version 1.0 release! visit www.pylot.org to download.

Pylot is still lacking some features I want to add for it to become a serious performance/load testing tool, but the current release delivers very usable functionality.

Current Features:

• multi-threaded load generator
• HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) support
• response verification with regular expressions
• execution/monitoring console
• real-time stats
• results reports with graphs
• GUI mode
• shell/console mode
• cross-platform

Aside from the GUI, there is also a new shell/console interface mode with real-time output for quickly profiling performance your application/service under test from the command line. In this mode, Pylot can run cross-platform. (tested on Windows XP, Vista, Cygwin, Ubuntu, MacOS)

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