[rspec-users] user stories for load testing?

[Rick Lee-Morlang]

Hi all,

We've recently been kicking around different ideas for simulating user 
behaviour for the purposes of load testing our backend. We hit on the 
idea of having user stories do double duty for both verifying behaviour 
and (if selected stories were driven en-masse by a distributed network 
of clients) for application load testing.

I googled around a bit and didn't find anything relevant. Anyone have 
any thoughts/pointers as to the usefulness and feasibility of this 
approach, or does anyone have any pointers to complementary 
tools/plugins? I was imagining something like webrat-over-HTTP and a drb 
wrapper.

Thanks,
Rick