[LRUG] API automation / load testing

[David Burrows]

I've done a bit of this in the past to test caching strategies -  I used
Ruby to write out Siege URL files (http://www.joedog.org/siege-manual/#a05)
then kick off the Siege test, not very sophisticated but did the trick

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On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Stephen Bartholomew <
stephenbartholomew at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about using ab (apache benchmark)?
>
> You could use a ruby script to shell out to it.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 29 Jun 2012, at 17:48, "Ed James (Alt)" <ed.james.spam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Hi all
>
> We are in the early stages of building an API app, and while we don't
> really know what our API will look like, we do have a fairly good idea
> about what our data will look like. The app is simple and will simply be
> receiving POST requests about events, which will be JSON-encoded strings.
>
> We are still in the prototyping phase where we want to explore some of the
> ideas and options we have on the table, and part of the prototyping will be
> testing at a moderate scale i.e. we want to be able to simulate variable
> volumes of traffic to see how things react, say something in the region of
> 500 requests/minute. Not sure, but you get the idea.
>
> Can anyone suggest a tool we could use to automate the building and/or
> sending of these requests? We're looking for something like a test suite
> but something that can apply a heavy load too.
>
> I'm looking at http://blitz.io, which I really like, but the drawback is
> I can't use it in a development environment. I've also used jMeter but it
> doesn't feel like the right tool and ideally I'd like something that can be
> saved in the apps code repository.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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