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Review on Locust by Joseph Flamm
Highly recommended Python tool used by us at work
It is free to use, has many features including GUI, it's easy for new users to learn how to use it without any training required, you can easily customize your tests with its powerful scripting language which makes running loads of different types of test cases very fast.
There are some bugs in the UI that need fixing but other than this I have no complaints about using locust as an automated web stress tester. We run our website under heavy load so we needed something like locust to check if it was able to handle such loads or not.
Pros
- Free
- Easy configuration via YAML file (or JSON)
- Very simple API calls from Python code,
- Extremely flexible testing framework.
- Lots more options available when writing scripts compared eith Jenkins/Hudson etc
- Easily customized according user needs adding custom plugins into python files defining own commands.
- Configuring through yaml configs instead command line parameters(Jenkins)
- The ability create multiple instances simultaneously at once!
- Flexible reporting
Cons
- Empty
