[LRUG] Load testing Rails apps

[Tim Harding]

Hi Alan,

I reckon the answer to question 1 depends on the answer to the question:
Does your application require Javascript to work properly?

If you can cover your happy/sad paths without needing Javascript, i.e., you
have used JS to enhance standard forms rather than to replace them, you're
going to be able to exercise your server side functionality and generate
load.

Perhaps if you're doing things like Javascript incremental search you'd want
to simulate that in your tests somehow by just sending through requests,
character at a time, to the endpoint that the Javascript would usually get
from?

-Tim

On 18 September 2011 20:51, Alan Buxton <alanbuxton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all****
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> I’ve really enjoyed the recent debates on startup employment ethics and UK
> tax law. That might read a bit sarcastic but seriously they have been
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> So it feels a bit strange to make a tech posting to the list … but here
> goes. It’s an echo of a previous question that instigated the e-petitions
> team coming in to talk to LRUG last week. I really the enjoyed the talk and
> was totally inspired by Alan Thomas’s jmeter piece to have a look at jmeter.
> The load/performance testing I do is either (a) manual, (b) based on looking
> for weaknesses using something like New Relic or (c) uses proprietary tools.
> So an open source option sounded great.****
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> A quick look at jmeter though and it says that it doesn’t execute
> javascript. This is at the same time that Rails apps seem to be using more
> and more javascript. Github, for example, seems to be deciding that my Rails
> apps are written in Javascript rather than Ruby.****
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> So some questions:****
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> **1.       **Does it matter that jmeter doesn’t execute javascript?****
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> **2.       **What other open source tools are there out there that are
> worth looking at?****
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> Best****
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> Alan****
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