[LRUG] API automation / load testing

[Ed James (Alt)]

Thanks for the feedback all - really helpful. 

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On Friday, 29 June 2012 at 19:29, John Arundel wrote:

> On 29 Jun 2012, at 17:53, Stephen Bartholomew wrote:
> > 
> > What about using ab (apache benchmark)?
> 
> +1
> 
> I've also used httperf, and autobench (a wrapper allowing you to co-ordinate httperf attacks from a whole bunch of machines). I usually find that I'll exhaust the outbound bandwidth of my load-generator machine well before I hit capacity on the server I'm testing, so a distributed autobench setup is useful in this situation.
> 
> You can generate realistic user sessions by taking snippets of your web logs and using httperf to replay them (for example, logging in as a test user, viewing some product pages, adding some items to your shopping cart, going to the checkout - stuff that exercises the whole stack and generates database writes). I find this often gives very different (and sometimes alarming) results compared to simply fetching the home page a million times.
> 
> Regards,
> John
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