Soak test / Simulating users

sekka1 commented 5 years ago

Sometime when testing out new load balancers or new APIs, you want a soak test to continuously hit the service with calls over a long duration of time to see how it will handle it.

To answer questions like:

How does this perform on a long term basis
Are there memory leaks
Are there weird edge cases when it runs long and hard for a long while

Would be interesting to see if we can add this into the url-watcher to be able to do this. If we did the load test thing and did the thing where we can simulate a "user call flow" then it would be just running this for a longer duration of time.

sekka1 commented 5 years ago

Here is a good list of what is out there right now for simulating user testing: https://geekflare.com/synthetic-monitoring-tools/

sekka1 commented 5 years ago

Open source load testing products: https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/web-performance-testing-top-12-free-open-source-tools-consider

sekka1 commented 5 years ago

This is interesting. This sits on top of Selenium and "supposedly" makes it easier to use:

https://github.com/oxygenhq/oxygen

Looks easy, it is in javascript.

This seems good for browser testing. Can you also do API testing with this also or do we need another tool?

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