[LRUG] Load testing Rails apps

[J. Pablo Fernández]

Hello,

With capybara-webkit you can access even the javascript parts, without
running a browser (headless). I never used it for load testing it but I used
it for testing an app, with and without cucumber. Obviously having
JavaScript always makes it more complex.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:22, Tim Harding <tim.harding at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> interesting.****
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>> ** **
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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:****
>>
>> **1.       **Does it matter that jmeter doesn’t execute javascript?****
>>
>> **2.       **What other open source tools are there out there that are
>> worth looking at?****
>>
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>>
>> Best****
>>
>>
>> Alan****
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