[Tutor] load test a web application?

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

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On Fri, 11/1/13, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Tutor] load test a web application?
 To: tutor at python.org
 Date: Friday, November 1, 2013, 3:05 PM
 
 On 01/11/2013 09:51, Albert-Jan
 Roskam wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I am looking at three Github-like programs (Stash,
 Gitbucket and Trac) to see if they could be used in our
 company. I would like to test the reliability and stability
 of at least one of them (I won't do any tests if some
 required functionality is missing).
 >
 > I am curious whether the program will crash under
 certain circumstances (e.g. multiple users checking code at
 *exactly* the same moment). What approach could I follow
 here? Though this does not *necessarily* have to involve
 Python, I would prefer this. The way I see it, it would
 carry out certain common usage patterns many usage patterns
 to simulate many users. I thought about using
 mechanize/subprocess, the multimechanize package, or the
 twill package.
 
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> It's my belief that this request is way beyond the remit of a tutor  mailing list.  The main mailing list is one obvious
> place to go, but maybe better yet would be the specialist testing list. This is available at gmane.comp.python.testing.general. 

Hi Mark,

Thanks. As you may have noticed I have posted this message on the main Python list. I received one off-list reply (a suggestion to use Github Enterprise). I could still try gmane.comp.python.testing.general. It is surprising that, unlike unittests, load/stress tests apparently are a more obscure domain. I have a book about Python testing (http://www.packtpub.com/python-testing-beginners-guide/book) and as far I can remember it does not cover this topic at all. A little googling does reveal some promising packages, e.g. http://locust.io/, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/funkload, or this overview: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy

regards,
Albert-Jan