Introduction

Load testing APIs

Getting Started

1. Install Jmeter https://jmeter.apache.org/

2. Open .jmx file in jmeter and run test.

3. This is optional unless you are doing it on cloud. To run tests against any server you will need jwt. You can get jwt from swagger request. Or there are other ways, just get he jwt already .

4. This is optional unless you are doing it on cloud. Add the jwt to corresponding Http Header Manager.

5. This is optional unless you are doing it on cloud. If you want to bypass load balancer, setup to hit nginx-ingress directly

6. Should be able to run tests now.

7. Once the test is built or modified in jmeter, it can be run through command line also.

8. Tests cycles through users.csv file

   To run

   jmeter -n -t pathTo\UserServiceTests.jmx  -l pathTo\UserServiceTestResults.csv 
   

   To generate the report though command line

   jmeter -g pathTo\UserServiceTestResults.csv -o pathTo\UserServiceTestResults
   

SetUp to hit nginx-ingress directly (i used gcloud).

1. Install kubectl

 gcloud components install kubectl

2. Get credentials

 Run gcloud --project my-project-name container clusters get-credentials project-name

3. Forward the port

 Run kubectl --namespace nginx-ingress port-forward nginx-name 80 (get running ingin-ingress from cloud)