Populating Site Usage Statistics
Hello all I'm running into a little bit of a problem that I can't find a simple (or even not so simply) solution to. My company produces a 3rd party tool for SharePoint. We're expanding and part of this is increasing our QA testing. Our tool provides a bunch of different functionalities, but reporting is one of them. The problem is that without usage statistics to test, testing our reporting capabilities is about as useful as staring at a blank screen. I've been tasked with building the VMs for the new developers, QA staff and support people, but the ones I can create are blank on usage stats. I talked to my oh so helpful QA friends and I got an answer along the lines of "well...just play around on the site for 2 hours a day and after a month, you'll have meaningful stats." That's about as helpful as a poopy flavored lollipop. Do you guys (and girls) know of any tools that I could just have run different scripts against the site? It doesn't even have to be that in depth. I can take some time and corral some people into uploading test docs, etc. But I really just need some traffic. Is my best bet to use a tool like LoadStorm? I don't even know if that would work in my situation, but it's the only tool I've used that I could even think might be able to do this. I'm also down to script this or whatever is necessary to prevent me from putting "I randomly surf through non-production web sites so that it looks like someone has been here before" in my resume. I'm kind of a scripting noob, but I'm down to devote as much time as is necessary to this. I know this is kind of rambling, so thank you to those who read the whole thing. And thank you in advance to everyone who offers me assistance. These forums are the greatest resource for all SP related problems I've ever seen. Cheers!
December 14th, 2010 5:22pm

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