loads 0.3

A distributed load testing tool.

Warning

Loads is under heavy development. Don’t use it.

Loads is a framework for load testing an HTTP service.

by Juan Pablo Bravo

Installation:

$ bin/pip install loads

See the docs at http://loads.readthedocs.org

CHANGES

0.3 - 2014-05-22

• Agents id are now unique across boxes

• Disabling heartbeat on busy agents

• Busy agents cannot be killed that easily

• moved from a REP/ROUTER/REQ pattern to a REP/ROUTER/ROUTER

• Refactored Funkload output

• Refactored external runner interface

• Many more things

0.2 - 2013-09-27

• improved test coverage, distributed stability and documentation

• refactored the code in cleaner & smaller modules.

• 15% speedup for the broker

• Database backends are now plugins. We provide a pure Python disk-based one and a Redis one.

• extended the database API - now used in the loads-web project to display running load tests.

• the console can now be detached and also displays tracebacks.

• added several options: –duration, –ping-broker, –check-cluster, –no-patching

• Fixed the DNS resolving issues.

• Added support for multiple runs in external runners

• Added an experimental Funkload output

0.1 - 2013-08-02

• Initial release.