LocalEGA Stress Tester Scripts

Load tool used for performing the tests is locust.io

Required: Python 3.6+

Instructions

For installation run the following:

git clone https://github.com/neicnordic/LocalEGA-stress-tester
cd LocalEGA-stress-tester
pip install -r requirements.txt
# see if locust is installed
locust -h
cd stress_tests

Scenario description

The scenarios performanted by the scripts are described at:

• Data API Performance Testing
• Inbox Stress Testing

Peforming the scenarios

Before performing the scenarios one needs to establish:

• Host address and Port for tested service;
• Number of clients and client spawned per second; e.g 100 users where there are 10 users spawned every second. In order to perform the evaluation this number can be increased or decreased per use case, as well as;
• Necessary configuration for the tests, based on scenario, has been added to:
  • Inbox tests: file, user and user private key in stress_tests/inbox_config.yaml;
  • DataEdge tests: JWT Tokens for DataEdge, root CA and file to download stress_tests/dataedge_config.yaml;
  • Encrypted File DataEdge tests: JWT Tokens for DataEdge, session IV, session key, root CA and file to download stress_tests/dataedge_config.yaml;
• Set the name of the csv report in the command below under <report_name>.

locust -f locustfiles/dataedge_test_1.py \
       --host=http://ega-data-api:port \
       --no-web \
       --clients=100 \
       --hatch-rate=10 \
       --run-time=20m \
       --csv=<report_name>

References

• https://docs.locust.io/en/latest/running-locust-without-web-ui.html