Hammer - A Simple HTTP Load Testing Tool 🛠️🚀

Introduction

Hammer is a simple HTTP load testing tool designed to help you test the performance of your web applications. With a few configurations, you can unleash the power of goroutines and measure the response time of your server under various loads. Let's dive into how you can wield the mighty Hammer! ⚒️💻

Configuration Options 🛠️

• Target URL (-url): The URL you want to benchmark (default: http://localhost:8000) 🌐
• Total Requests (-r): Total number of requests to perform (default: 100) 📈
• Concurrency (-c): Total number of goroutines to run concurrently (default: 1) 🏃
• Timeout (-t): Request timeout in seconds (default: 20) ⏰

Getting Started 🔨

1. Clone the Hammer repository.
2. Run go build -o ./hammer to build the executable.
3. Run the executable with your desired configuration.

./hammer -url=http://your-target-url.com -r=500 -c=10 -t=30

Explanation of the Code 💬

1. Command Line Flags: Accepts various configurations via command line flags.
2. Goroutines: Spawns goroutines to perform concurrent requests.
3. Response Time Channel: Uses a channel to collect response times from goroutines.
4. Calculate Results: After all goroutines finish, it calculates and displays the results.

Future Plans

1. Add load-testing for POST, UPDATE routes as well (Currently only supporting GET request)

Contributing

This project has an MIT license, so feel free to contribute

Now you're ready to swing the Hammer and unleash the power of load testing! 💪🚀