user_focused_locust_boilerplate

Locust is an easy to use, scriptable and scalable performance testing tool. This boilerplate is barebones for testing user behavior focused load testing. This can act as a starting point for testing api's that are unique user focused.

Structure

1. base_user.py contains the barebone code for log_in, logging_response, validating_response and handling user's pool.
2. Extend the base_user.py to implement api for login
3. Use methods postfix with hook to add or update cookies or locally store token for api calls to follow.
4. Update validate_resp is_valid_response_data as per your api needs.
5. You will probably need to generate dummy users. Those will be imported into memory from file named USER_CREDENTIALS_FILE_NAME. This script will try to log them in with USER_API_PASSWORD as password.
6. Because locust uses the local copy of code provided to slave nodes. For distributed testing, branch your code and divide your users per machine.

Setup & Requirements

1. Setup virtual env
2. python > 3.7
3. pip3 install requirements.txt
4. run command locust -f locust_files/your_user.py