Skip to main content

Functional and load web tester.

Project description

FunkLoad is a functional and load web tester, written in Python, whose main use cases are:

  • Functional testing of web projects, and thus regression testing as well.

  • Performance testing: by loading the web application and monitoring your servers it helps you to pinpoint bottlenecks, giving a detailed report of performance measurement.

  • Load testing tool to expose bugs that do not surface in cursory testing, like volume testing or longevity testing.

  • Stress testing tool to overwhelm the web application resources and test the application recoverability.

  • Writing web agents by scripting any web repetitive task.

Features

Main FunkLoad features are:

  • Functional test are pure Python scripts using the pyUnit framework like normal unit test. Python enable complex scenarios to handle real world applications.

  • Truly emulates a web browser (single-threaded) using an enhanced Richard Jones’ webunit:

    • get/post/put/delete support

    • post any kind of content type like application/xml

    • DAV support

    • basic authentication support

    • file upload and multipart/form-data submission

    • cookies support

    • referrer support

    • https support

    • https with ssl/tls by providing a private key and certificate (PEM formatted)

    • http_proxy support

    • fetching css, javascript and images

    • emulating a browser cache

  • Advanced test runner with many command-line options:

    • set the target server url

    • display the fetched page in real time in your browser

    • debug mode to display http headers

    • check performance of a single page (or set of pages) inside a test

    • green/red color mode

    • select or exclude tests cases using a regex

    • support normal pyUnit test

    • support doctest from a plain text file or embedded in python docstring

  • Turn a functional test into a load test: just by invoking the bench runner you can identify scalability and performance problems. If needed the bench can distributed over a group of worker machines.

  • Detailed bench reports in ReST, HTML, Org-mode, PDF (using LaTeX/PDF Org-mode export) containing:

    • the bench configuration

    • tests, pages, requests stats and charts

    • the requets that took the most time

    • monitoring one or many servers cpu usage, load average, memory/swap usage and network traffic charts

    • an http error summary list

  • Differential reports to compare 2 bench reports giving a quick overview of scalability and velocity changes.

  • Trend reports to view the performance evolution with multiple reports.

  • Easy test customization using a configuration file or command line options.

  • Easy test creation using embeded TCPWatch as proxy recorder, so you can use your web browser and produce a FunkLoad test automatically, including file upload or any ajax call.

  • Provides web assertion helpers to check expected results in responses.

  • Provides helpers to retrieve contents in responses page using DOM.

  • Easy to install (EasyInstall).

  • Comes with examples look at the demo folder.

  • Successfully tested with dozen of differents web servers: PHP, python, Java…

License

FunkLoad is free software distributed under the GNU GPL license.

(C) Copyright 2005-2011 Nuxeo SAS (http://nuxeo.com).

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

funkload-1.16.1.tar.gz (186.0 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Source

Built Distributions

funkload-1.16.1-py2.7.egg (295.3 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Source

funkload-1.16.1-py2.6.egg (296.3 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Source

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page