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An open source load testing tool. Define user behaviour with Python code, and swarm your system with millions of simultaneous users.
A Locust test is essentially just a Python program making requests to the system you want to test. This makes it very flexible and particularly good at implementing complex user flows.
Jun 25, 2024 · Locust is an open source performance/load testing tool for HTTP and other protocols. Its developer-friendly approach lets you define your tests in regular Python code. Locust tests can be run from command line or using its web-based UI.
While Locust itself is a pure Python package, it has some dependencies (e.g. gevent and geventhttpclient) that are compiled from C code. Pretty much all common platforms have binary packages on PyPi, but sometimes there is a new release that doesn’t, or you are running on some exotic platform.
Increasing the request rate. Distributed load generation. Running tests in a debugger. Running in Docker. Running without the web UI.
Locust is an open source performance/load testing tool for HTTP and other protocols. Its developer-friendly approach lets you define your tests in regular Python code. Locust tests can be run from command line or using its web-based UI. Throughput, response times and errors can be viewed in real time and/or exported for later analysis.
Description. Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. It is intended for load-testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle. The idea is that during a test, a swarm of locusts will attack your website.
Feb 22, 2024 · Locust is an open-source, scalable load testing tool that uses Python scripts and a distributed, event-based architecture. Locust can be configured to run distributed load testing across multiple instances, and tests can be run via the command line or Locust’s web-based UI.
Jan 3, 2020 · Fed up with the existing tools for benchmarking and load testing an existing server, I recently found an open-source tool called Locust to use in one of my projects. By reading this piece, you’ll be…
Nov 18, 2021 · In this post, we will show you how to start your first test using Locust and Python. Plus, get a step-by-step overview of how to correlate valuables and assert your script.
