Felt

Front end load testing with PhantomJS/SlimerJS, sponsored by CoScale

Description

Felt is a front-end load tester. It generates load by running a lot of browser instances simultaneously and waiting for the page to finish loading (no more pending resource calls). The tool uses PhantomJS or SlimerJS. You can use Felt to quickly generate load on front end heavy applications. With scenarios you can setup a path through your application for the browsers to follow.

Use cases

• Load testing
  • AngularJS
  • React
  • Backbone.js
  • Ember.js
• Cache warming
• Quick local load tests
• Synthetic monitoring

Features

• Real browser load testing of web applications
• Works with PhantomJS (webkit) and SlimerJS (firefox)
• Scenarios

Requirements

• Tested on Python 2.7.10
• Unix based operating system
• Local install of PhantomJS or SlimerJS available in PATH
• Install commentjson (pip install commentjson)

Quick start

1. git clone https://github.com/kidk/felt.git

2. cd felt

3. Download PhantomJS from http://phantomjs.org/download.html

4. Unzip and move PhantomJS executable into felt directory

   The felt directory should look something like this: $ ls LICENSE README.md js main.py phantomjs

5. pip install commentjson

6. python main.py --verbose examples/basic.json

7. ctrl + c to stop

Usage

usage: main.py [-h] [--debug] [--verbose] [--threads THREADS] [--test] [--screenshot]
               scenario

Start workload.

positional arguments:
  scenario

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --debug            enable debug information
  --verbose          makes generator more verbose
  --threads THREADS  number of threads to run simultaneously
  --test             run a scenario only once
  --screenshot       save screenshot per step

Actions list

• open_url - Open browser and navigate to url.

  Attributes:

  • value: Url to open

• set_value - Set value attribute in an element

  Attributes:

  • selector - Value for querySelector
  • value - Value to insert into element

• submit - Send submit event to element

  Attributes:

  • selector - Value for querySelector

• click - Send click event to element (if selector returns multiple elements, first one is clicked)

  Attributes:

  • selector - Value for querySelectorAll

• click_one - Send click event to random selected element

  Attributes:

  • selector - Value for querySelectorAll

• sleep - Wait for x miliseconds

  Attributes:

  • value - Amount in ms you want function to wait or object with min, max to wait a random time between min and max

• wait_for_element - Wait for element to appear in browser

  Attributes:

  • selector - Value for querySelector

• check_element_exists - Check if element is present and contains content

  Attributes:

  • selector - Value for querySelector

Development

Included in this repository is a Vagrant file which you can use to develop Felt locally. Please don't hesitate to submit bugs, feature requests or pull requests.

Sponsored by CoScale