funkload 1.6.1

Functional and load web tester.

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, like checking if a site is alive.

Main FunkLoad features are:

• FunkLoad is free software distributed under the GNU GPL.

• 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 Richard Jones’ webunit:

  • basic authentication support

  • cookies support

  • referrer support

  • http proxy support

  • fetching css, javascript and images

  • emulating a browser cache

  • file upload and multipart/form-data submission

  • https support

• 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

  • green/red color mode

  • select test case 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.

• Detailed bench reports in ReST or HTML (and PDF via ps2pdf) containing:

  • the bench configuration

  • tests, pages, requests stats and charts with percentiles.

  • the 5 slowest requests.

  • servers cpu usage, load average, memory/swap usage and network traffic charts.

  • an http error summary list

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

• Easy test creation using TCPWatch as proxy recorder, so you can use your web browser and produce a FunkLoad test automatically.

• Provides web assertion helpers.

• Provides a funkload.CPSTestCase to ease Zope and Nuxeo CPS testing.

• Easy to install (EasyInstall) and use, see examples in the demo folder.