K6 Spike Testing

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Adding in a spike test script and equivalent tests within the script

A spike test verifies whether the system survives and performs under sudden and massive rushes of utilization. Spike testing increases to extremely high loads in a very short or non-existent ramp-up time. Usually, it has no plateau period or is very brief, as real users generally do not stick around doing extra steps in these situations. In the same way, the ramp-down is very fast or non-existent, letting the process iterate only once.

Example script code for spike testing:

import http from 'k6/http';
import {sleep} from 'k6';

export const options = {
  // Key configurations for spike in this section
  stages: [
    { duration: '2m', target: 2000 }, // fast ramp-up to a high point
    // No plateau
    { duration: '1m', target: 0 }, // quick ramp-down to 0 users
  ],
};

export default () => {
  const urlRes = http.get('https://test-api.k6.io');
  sleep(1);
  // MORE STEPS
  // Add only the processes that will be on high demand
  // Step1
  // Step2
  // etc.
};