AppTimer

PassMark Software · PassMark.AppTimer

Application Startup Timer

AppTimer will run an executable a number of times and time how long it takes for the application to reach a state where user input is being accepted before exiting the application. After each run of the application AppTimer will attempt to close the application in an automated fashion while logging the startup time measurements to a log file. It's main use is in benchmarking an application's startup time. This can be useful when comparing the performance of different products on the same hardware, or comparing the performance of the same product on different hardware. Using AppTimer will give far a more consistent and repeatable measurement than manual measurements with a stopwatch. Especially when the applications startup time is less than a couple of seconds.