[LRUG] API automation / load testing

[Thom May]

http://twitter.github.com/iago/ looks really thoroughly interesting,
and you could presumably drive it via jruby...

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:48 PM, 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?
>
> --
> Ed James
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